Comment by d3ckard
5 months ago
Good software tends to resemble an iceberg - what you see is just a small bit of what's actually in there. I wouldn't be so hasty in assumptions here.
5 months ago
Good software tends to resemble an iceberg - what you see is just a small bit of what's actually in there. I wouldn't be so hasty in assumptions here.
I should've been more clear that my claim was only about the ability to post messages, have them stored in a database, and then have a tree-view that displays and edits the posts. That's 99% of what users do right? That entire functionality could be done by an AI Agent nowadays in about 10 minutes.
The question would be how many security exploits and other edge cases would be included in that.
Doesn't matter. You could replicate the basic functionality of Hacker News in a single Coding Agent Prompt. Sorry, I'm not wrong.
I've been writing web apps since 1998. Just today I implemented a similar tree view, with ability to create, edit, rename, move files and folders in a TypeScript react web app, and my app that I wrote today is a vastly more sophisticated GUI than Hacker News. lol.
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