when the product works
works !== production quality imo
Readit Newsgrowbell_social commented on Ask HN: When to Open a Beta? · Posted by u/growbell_social
growbell_social commented on Modern Node.js Patterns kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2... · Posted by u/eustoria
I'm just happy to see Node.js patterns as a #1 on HN after continually being dismissed from 2012-2018.
growbell_social commented on Show HN: I Taught an LSTM to Trade So I Could Sleep Better at Night wolflux.site/... · Posted by u/Neshanth
How many people have tried it out so far? We're building something in a tangentially related space (backtesting) and love the idea.
saying you vibe coded something, and then its financial trading strategies does not lend confidence.
haha. I've been writing code professionally for a very long time. The vibe-coded comment in my original post wasn't really necessary I guess. There's still plenty of design/logic/architecture to be done to ensure robustness.
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As early as possible.
No concern with chasing away potential early adopters?
growbell_social commented on Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI? · Posted by u/growbell_social
> But honestly what are the examples of people losing their jobs to software ?
Bank tellers
Travel agents
Cashiers
Bookkeeping clerks
Typists
Many of these still exist today, though is not as large of numbers. Maybe it's the same for software engineers. I still don't recall hearing of bank tellers accelerating the pace of ATMs or Travel Agents encouraging their clients to use Expedia.
> At this point, I’ve even stopped reviewing the exact code changes. I just keep pushing forward until the task is done.
I think this is becoming more normal. I wrote about it [1], but I have the opposite takeaway. This makes programming for me _vastly more_ enjoyable. It might come down to the type of programming you do.
1. Do you build and ship whole products? 2. Do you work mostly on non-user facing code (backend etc)
I'd be interested to know which of these you work on.
[1] https://open.substack.com/pub/growbell/p/i-dont-care-what-th...
growbell_social commented on Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI? · Posted by u/growbell_social
> If AI is a threat to software engineering, I wouldn't expect many software engineers to actively accelerate that trend.
This is a naive take. Throughout history things have been automated with the help of professions who were being automated away.
I don't disagree it's a naive take, and I would love to read about some examples where this happened.
I haven't seen too many industries be automated away first hand, and I'm sure there are historic examples. I wouldn't expect the lamp lighters to have been championing the rise of electric lamps. Maybe they did though because it meant they could work less hours.