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YesCursor · 30 Jun 2025

The AI basically automates the most horrible aspect of the work; making sense of the complexity and churning out more complexity that works

jongjong on Hacker News

In the thread “The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering”

Helped: Explaining intuitions to guide AI context.

Got in the way: AI sometimes makes mistakes or incorrect assumptions.

… Then it generates new code which 'follows' existing 'conventions' (same level of mess). The AI basically automates the most horrible aspect of the work; making sense of the complexity and churning out more complexity that works. I love it. …