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NoTool not named · 3 Jun 2026

I work on a pretty boring system, and AI is not all that meaningful in terms of its impact, and it’s not for a lack of trying

devin on Hacker News

In the thread “Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing”, replying to this comment

Helped: Creating migrations and adding endpoints.

Got in the way: Solving hard problems in a boring system.

… Like, yes you can get an LLM to gen some junk, but _is it any good_ is still something you are in charge of. As far as “boring systems are boring”, I can tell you from experience that I work on a pretty boring system, and AI is not all that meaningful in terms of its impact, and it’s not for a lack of trying. Can it help me create a migration and add an endpoint and such? …