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Comment by DrewADesign

12 hours ago

> I imagine HN, despite being full of experts and vet devs, also might have a prevalent attitude of looking down on using tools like MCP servers or agentic AI libraries for coding, which might be why something like this advertised seems novel rather than redundant.

I’m not sure where the ‘despite’ comes in. Experts and vets have opinions and this is probably the best online forum to express them. Lots of experts and vets also dislike extremely popular unrelated tools like VB, Windows, “no-code” systems, and Google web search… it’s not a personality flaw. It doesn’t automatically mean they’re right, either, but ‘expert’ and ‘vet’ are earned statuses, and that means something. We’ve seen trends come and go and empires rise and fall, and been repeatedly showered in the related hype/PR/FUD. Not reflexively embracing everything that some critical mass of other people like is totally fine.

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gbnwl  11 hours ago

I think maybe the point they were trying to make is that despite people on HN being very technically experienced, skepticism and distrust of LLM-assisted coding tools may have prevented many of them from exploring the space too deeply yet. So a project like this may seem novel to many readers here, when the reality for users who've been using and following tools like Claude Code (and similar) closely for a while now is that claims like the one's this project is making come out multiple times per week.