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Over the past six months, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve checked the HN Best RSS feed without seeing a post about how AI “writes bad code,” “introduces bugs,” “creates technical debt,” or something along those lines.

I’ll probably make a lot of enemies by saying this, but do people realize that code is just a means to an end?

Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand, or which framework you used. They care that the product works.

I say this as someone who has spent more than 20 years honing their craft as a software engineer.

Let’s face it: by the time I manually ship version 1.0 of a product, the AI-assisted version could have been deployed 10x faster. By then, enough real-world feedback would have surfaced to identify the major issues, and tools like Claude Code would make it possible to fix and ship version 2.0 at an incredible pace.

At some point, execution speed starts to matter more than the elegance of the code.","time":1780713111,"title":"Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?","type":"story"}],[48432990,{"by":"jakemanger","descendants":1,"id":48432990,"kids":[48442762,48433033,48433229],"score":1,"text":"As someone who loves coding (uses vim, and has done so for ~10 years),

but also is amazed by AI coding tools and has embraced them recently (e.g. copilot then claude code then codex),

I'm curious, who out there is still not using any of these tools? And if not, why?

I feel it's become as common-place as autocomplete, or intellisense. Though I remember people used to hate those too.

I guess AI is like the modern day intellisense + docs targeted for exactly what you're doing, always \n(maybe that + an intern that never sleeps)","time":1780821423,"title":"Ask HN: Who here still codes without AI, and why?","type":"story"}]]

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