All that stuff would take me about 5 minutes without AI. Those are things with 10,000 examples all over the web. AI is good at distilling the known solutions. But anything even slightly out of the ordinary, it fails miserably. I'd much rather write that code myself instead of spend an hour convincing an AI to do it for me.

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andoando 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is absolutely no way. Those tasks take 5 mins to do. Itd be done by the time you read the documentation for elvenlabs

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andoando 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Im curious though, what do you consider slightly out of the ordinary that it fails to do?

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lpnam0201 an hour ago | parent [-]

Haven't tried Claude for this, but I can't think how it could possibly do. I built a game bot using Win32 API to send input and screen capture to OCR and some OpenCV to recognize game elements. Dead simple and actually quite boring and repeatitive after I worked on it for a while. How could Claude agents possibly do this ? I did use Claude to refer docs and API, though.

	▲	DennisP a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		That actually sounds like something Claude could do pretty easily. Yegge's book describes his coauthor's first vibe coding project. It went through screenshots he'd saved of youtube videos, read the time with OCR, looked up transcripts, and generated video snippets with subtitles added. (I think this was before youtube added subtitles itself.) He had it done in 45 minutes. And using agents to control other applications is pretty common.

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mexicocitinluez 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> All that stuff would take me about 5 minutes without AI.

There isn't a single person on this planet (detractor or not) that would believe this statement.

If you're argument rests on an insane amount of hyperbole (that immediately comes off as just lying), then maybe it's not a great argument.

> I'd much rather write that code myself instead of spend an hour convincing an AI to do it for me.

You're not suggesting that asking CC to build the UI for a route planner takes me an hour to type, are you?

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coldtea 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>All that stuff would take me about 5 minutes without AI.

No, it wouldn't. Merely finding the examples and deps would take over an hour.

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conartist6 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Back when, we'd just go write a blog post or SO answer so the next person wouldn't suffer as much.

Thank god THOSE days are over and everyone just lets everyone else suffer alone now

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iijaachok 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, because search engines are populated with SEO-optimized LLM-filled articles that say nothing of value anymore. The only reason AI-assisted tools are "better" is because Web search is so much worse.

	▲	mexicocitinluez 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's like everyone forgot that the first result for anything web-related would be W3schools, and the next 5 would be spam message boards that tries to scrape all the other boards and sends you to a porn site when you click on it.