2026-09-24 20:32 UTC
@simeon@indiehackers.social Is that a good line though?
There is so much boiler-plate. A huge amount of programming is basically copying and pasting anyway.
How AI does your AI have to be to not just be writing the boiler-plate?
As a union drawing a line at which we withdraw work it's a good line.
But it will mean lots of fairly pointless minor editing of boilerplate which could otherwise be automated.
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@simeon@indiehackers.social 2026-09-24 20:44
@pre@boing.world I’m trying to find a workable balance between generate all the code and have no idea how it works, and do have an idea how it works. Yes, there’s a lot of boiler plate that we can gen. But I also notice that the gen slope is covered in soap, and the more I gen, the less I read, all the way beyond the boiler plate, all the way to someone asking “why did you implement it like that” and I have to answer “let me ask my agent” which, I hope you agree, is unworkable?