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One Month Without AI

188 points · 228 comments · saibotk

  1. austin-cheney · · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah, I have never understood the over reliance on AI. Writing the code is not the challenge. The time it takes to push a new feature and test it out is often trivial, maybe a few hours.

    The real challenge is forming the new ideas in the first place and most of those new ideas coming either from using the code as a product or time spent maintaining and refactoring large code.

    Anyways, if you want to continue on the path towards regaining control and take it to the next level I wrote something similar here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.sharefile.systems&#x2F;be-brave-go-low&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.sharefile.systems&#x2F;be-brave-go-low&#x2F;

    1. podgietaru · · focus · HN ↗
      This actually sums up a lot of what I feel about AI. For everything. For flyers, menus, all the rest of it.

      It always only took a few hours. And yeah, whatever, sure it adds up. But now you&#x27;ve got this dogshit looking flyer outside your restaurant, and it would have taken you like 45 minutes to adept a Canva template.

      For AI, the skill loss and all the rest of it, the lack of control, the lack of knowledge of the codebase. It doesn&#x27;t feel like saving the few hours is ever worth it.

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