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Comment by tensor

9 hours ago

As far as I'm aware, aside from toy prototypes, all software is still built by humans coding, albeit with better auto-complete.

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nl  8 hours ago

This seems to be more a problem of your awareness than a lack of projects.

Apart from every software engineer I know building almost completely with AI now there have been numerous projects posted on HN that are AI coded.

There's also Claude desktop which is famously all AI built and very widely used.

  • tensor  6 hours ago

    > now there have been numerous projects posted on HN that are AI coded.

    Yes, all of which are toy projects and get criticized every time they are posted. On actual serious projects, not someones pet home project, I've only seen "vibe coding" used in very low risk places like small UI components. And even then they are generally heavily tweaked after the fact.

    My anecdotal personal experience seem to agree with the general sentiment I see here on HN. Some people or companies do it, but with generally heavy criticism.

  • paodealho  7 hours ago

    Have you ever considered:

    - that you don't know most people in the world

    - that some of the people you know are using these tools because they were forced

    ?

    • nl  7 hours ago

      > that you don't know most people in the world

      Of course.

      To be clear, the claim was "all software is still built by humans coding"

      I know this all software claim is false because I've seen it. Proof by example.

      > that some of the people you know are using these tools because they were forced

      Irrelevant to that claim.

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aka-rider  9 hours ago

It is all very unevenly distributed. SaaS and general web is basically on auto mode.

A lot of infra is vibe coded nowadays too.

Even prototypes are contributing to the speed of software development. Many people vibe code throwaway dashboards around the main platform which gives a lot of insights.