YHK - yet another hacker news clone

You are holding it wrong!

I think there's a lot of setup and context required for an AI agent to consistently write good code. Once the agent has these guard rails in place I usually get great quality- far better than what I would write in most cases.

I think where things get dicey is being able to write in any language. I write and review code in many languages and frameworks I'm not fluent in, so it's hard for me to distinguish between working code and great code. I can spot when the fundamental logic is wrong, but when it comes to "best fit" choices I'm clueless.

If AI is not lowering your code quality, you weren't very good to begin with. The point of AI is to increase your productivity tenfold while maintaining acceptable (but not great) code quality.

Ah, the "skill issue" argument again. Same crap aswhen everyonewas worshiping Musk 5-6 years ago, this time it's dario and altman with a claude/chatgpt mask. Crash can't come soon enough.

AI writes unmaintainable code - you can see that many projects don't accept it.

If AI coding isn't lowering your code quality, you're not using it enough

I'd say step 0 is know your audience.

I'm happily vibing my own toy projects, but would prefer if the tech in hospitals is not vibe coded.

And I don't think it's plausible that the gap between those two is "well you just need to use it right".