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- fullstackchris parentI'll also argue that level of skill depends on what one can make in those two days... it's like a mirror. If you don't know what to ask for, it doesn't know what to produce
- what "AI" are you speaking of? all the current leading LLMs i know of will _not_ do this (i.e web search for latest libraries) unless you explicitely ask
- This is probably the best post i've seen about the whole LLM / vibe coding space at least in relation to web dev. Indeed, as the author states, the code / agent often needs some coralling, but if you know all the gotchyas / things to look for, you can focus 100% on the creativity part! Been loving it as well.
- This overly discussed thesis is already laughable - decent LLMs have been out for 3 years now and unemployment (using US as example) is up around 1% over the same time frame - and even attributing that small percentage change completely to AI is also laughable
- I just use a couple of custom MCP tools with the standard claude desktop app:
https://chrisfrew.in/blog/two-of-my-favorite-mcp-tools-i-use...
IMO this is the best balance of getting agentic work done while having immediate access to anything else you may need with your development process.
- I wrote an article complaining about the whole hype over a year ago:
https://chrisfrewin.medium.com/why-llms-will-never-be-agi-70...
Seems to be playing out that way.
- Wasn't it basically revealed as a scam? I remember some article about their fancy demo video being sped up / unfairly cut and sliced etc.
- > The reason I think MCP may be a one-year wonder is the stratospheric growth of coding agents. It appears that the best possible tool for any situation is Bash—if your agent can run arbitrary shell commands, it can do anything that can be done by typing commands into a terminal.
I push back strongly from this. In the case of the solo, one-machine coder, this is likely the case - if you're exposing workflows or fixed tools to customers / collegues / the web at large via API or similar, then MCP is still the best way to expose it IMO.
Think about a GitHub or Jira MCP server - commandline alone they are sure to make mistakes with REST requests, API schema etc. With MCP the proper known commands are already baked in. Remember always that LLMs will be better with natural language than code.
- Reading some of these comments, it's clear very few in here have ever written a productive customer facing full stack app "javascript is really good for a single file app!!!" ok, maybe if you're rendering static HTML... -> these are not serious people
- Love it, fantastic work!
- this is basically supabase. their entire stack (and product) can be hosted as a series of something like 10+ docker containers:
https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting/docker
however, like always, 'complexity has to live somewhere'. I doubt even Opus 4.5 could handle this. as soon as you get into database records themselves, context is going to blow up and you're going to have a bad time
- I have a variety of education (books, courses) and run fintech SaaS, which combined are finally providing around $2K/month in profits since around July this year (for a long time, was hovering around that $500 mark)
My first successful SaaS, The Wheel Screener, a screener optimized for selling options: https://wheelscreener.com
A sister spin-off LEAPS Screener, for buying LEAPS options: https://leapsscreener.com
And, just launched in November, but already profitable, VannaCharm, a dashboard to view and watch in real time dealer hedging metrics: https://vannacharm.com
Looking to launch 1-2 more SaaS in 2026, trying to get to the point where I can do this full-time, let's get it folks!
- reading these comments - wow, absolutely nobody has an idea what a CMS is. if your going to "replace it with cursor" or "AI" you've completely lost the plot as a software engineer
you guys do realize that WordPress (as much as I hate its ubiquitous existence) is the CMS model?
and still something like 40% of all pages on the internet
- it's a con job and strawman take. if we collectively think token generators can replace humans completely, well then we've already lost the plot as a global society
- Agreed. If folks want to write java in elipse they are more than welcome to do so... dont understand these yelling at clouds posts really
- uh... thats exactly why anthropic wouldnt want to be acquired? weird response to that comment IMO
- Haha they updated their status page: "Identified - A global upstream provider is currently experiencing an outage which is impacting platform-level and project-level services"
A global upstream provider :)
- They better not be using AI to fix this... especially if AI is what caused it! (looking at you, AWS)
- Supabase is down bad too... need to work on my project!
- div onclick is an abomination that should be eliminated
- Just shows you how absolutely little people know about the web ecosystem - most people heard something once or twice from someone else and just assume its true - to make matters worse, you have the typical HN "vanilla html and js only!!!" bandwagon which, if you try to use for any serious web application will only lead you down a path of much pain and suffering. I've commented many times in many other threads that I just don't get it; I probably never will.
- I can almost with 100% certainty see this being one of those things that ultimately, after years of just blantantly ignoring something as simple as basic syntax rules, being redefined to something that is actually valid JavaScript / TypeScript.
- I just read this seperately through Google Discover, and I don't quite get amazing newness of it - if anything, it feels to me like of an abstraction of MCP - there is nothing I see here that couldnt be replaced by a series of MCP tools - for example, the author mentions "a current trick" often used is including a markdown file with details / instructions around a task - this can be handled with an mcp server prompt (or even a 'tool' that just returns the desired text) If you've fooled around as much as I have, you realize in the prompt itself you can mention other available tools the LLM can use - defining a workflow, if you will, including tools for actual coding and validation like the author mentions they included in their skill.
Furthermore, with all the hype around MCP servers and simply the amount of servers now existing, do they just immediately come obsolete? its also a bit fuzzy to me just exactly how an LLM will choose an MCP tool over a skill and vice versa...
- Has anyone else noticed that HN is starting to sound a lot like reddit / discussion of similar quality? Can't hang out anywhere now on the web... I used to be on here daily but with garbage like this its been reduced to 2-3 times per month... sad
- you do understand this would require re-training billions of weights in realtime
and not even "trainingl really.... but a finished and stably functioning billion+ param model updating itself in real time...
good luck, see you in 2100
in short, what ive been shouting from a hilltop since about 2023: LLMs tech alone simply wont cut it; we need a new form of technology
- but even as humans we still don't know what "aware" even means!
- Of course it's possible. It's just DEFINITELY not possible using a large neural net, or basically a markov chain on steroids. C'mon, this should be very obvious by now in the world of agents / LLMs.
When is silicon valley gonna learn that token input and output =/= AGI?
- azure vision / "cognitive services" can do this for literally a few bucks
am i even on hacker news? how do people not know there are optimized models for specific use cases? not everything (nor should it) has to run through an LLM
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-...
- In general, a good rule of thumb is only code "clean" enough so that you / your team / someone else can figure out what the hell you were doing at that particular area of the source code