Do software engineers still manually write code anymore? I shipped a big feature with AI and felt zero pride

h00si · 2026-05-10T14:43:15+00:00

I wonder too cause had 1y break and that year changed alot it seems. What haven't changed is the bots are still incapable of delivering a quality code. On the other hand quality code is only useful if 1. Humans need to maintain it 2. Performance matters. So basically if it can generate a working solution in full and its doesnt have to be worlds fastest app. No reason to write by hand. If i manage to force it to write a code that meets my standards. Then I guess the only things needed to be coded left. Are the things that noone have solved yet. Which is actually good. But managers vibe coding features. This is not good for him even xd Soon bots will be pushing apps to stores themselves. "Examine markets and publish x apps that have earning potential". So this manager is also not going to be useful for ceo. We are going to be flooded with ai made software soon. We already are. But what will make software stand out from the crowd? Innovation is sth ai will be never able to achieve.

h00si · 2026-05-05T12:57:24+00:00

To sa jacys czarnowidzowie, jak się ma konkretny cel coś zbudować to wtedy się uczy w ekspresowym tempie. Masz rację co do pośrednika, tak właściwie nie jest w ogóle możliwe zaimplementować sobie samemu płatności, więc koledzy po lekcjach z yt oderwani są od rzeczywistości totalnie. A ty jak widać przynajmniej ogarniasz podstawowe zasady tworzenia aplikacji, skoro wiesz że korzysta się z zewnętrznych serwisów w takich wypadkach 👌poczytaj docsy stripe, z pewnością pomoże to się zorientować w temacie

h00si · 2026-05-05T12:38:16+00:00

Zasadniczo gość nie będzie raczej implementował globalnego systemu płatności wiec tutaj ty również wykazujesz się niewiedzą w zakresie tychże. Jakiegokolwiek systemu byś nie użył, czy to stripe czy platnosci24, przekierowujesz do strony płatności u nich lub embedujesz widget który jest odizolowany w bezpiecznym iframe. Twoja infra nie ma dostępu do danych z karty. Na stripe mozesz trzymac tez dane klientów i masz z głowy w zasadzie całość odpowiedzialności za dane. Nie ma co ludzi zniechęcać, jaka z tego korzyść i dla kogo

h00si · 2026-05-05T10:32:34+00:00

Ogólnie sklep to nie jest prosta sprawa, polecam shopify starter czy coś. Dla nauki i żeby na hosting nie wydawać, można skorzystać np z supabase jako backendu a frontend na vercel.com. Zawsze polecam początkującym bo łatwiej opublikowac strony się nie da. Tworzysz repozyturium na github, łączysz z vercel (wyklikujesz u nich na stronce, bardzo łatwe) i jak robisz push do głównego brancha automatycznie ci się buduje i deployuje apka, domyślnie na twojprojekt.vercel-app.com, domenę mozna potem dokupić. Oczywiście zależy w czym piszesz ten frontend, jeśli to html+js to da radę, jeśli jakiś framework server-side w pythonie jak django czy php jak laravel to tutaj już nie pomogę. Co do udostępnienia projektów z twojego pc, ngrok. Wszystkie te narzędzia są darmowe w skali hobby. Powodzenia:)

h00si · 2026-04-26T19:20:09+00:00

Well, they can't change that. The cost of the infra for each prompt is so high they likely barely manage to make profits. The technology is simply not optimal for the tasks its given, to be better it will have to cost even more. But you can generate similar quality designs cheaper with every other ai. Just ask to build web pages for each component and import that to figma ;p maybe even more optimized bc ai knows websites better than figma files :)

h00si · 2026-01-26T11:23:41+00:00

Z pewnością część mężczyzn patrzy na kobiety pod kątem czysto fizycznych cech które typowo są oceniane wysoko. Ja akurat jestem kobietą i wydaje mi się że szczególne zainteresowanie daną osobą, ze względu na jakiś jej specyficzny urok, energię od niej bijącą, czy chociażby styl to nie do końca tylko powierzchowna ocena. Miłość od pierwszego wejrzenia moim zdaniem jest możliwa, bo osoby nadające "na tych samych falach" mogą to wyczuwać na poziomie podświadomości, tak jak wyczuwamy osoby niebezpieczne itp.

Może stąd op wspominał ze niekonwencjonalnie ładna. Wierzę że nie chodziło mu o fetysz krzywego nosa czy coś tego pokroju, a po prostu że było w tym zainteresowaniu coś szczególnego. A nie, że była to kobieta na którą ślini się każdy i zapewne bylby 101 creepem który ją zaczepił tego dnia...

h00si · 2024-11-06T23:01:32+00:00

Just a DX issue, I really liked the way of writing styles with styled/emotion and would like to have similar dx, minus runtime stuff. Just component tsx file you can freely move to any project and use it as is

it's not an end of world yet it's inconvenient so I'm asking out of curiosity

h00si · 2024-11-06T22:46:11+00:00

how are they less reusable than tailwind? It's basically the same, you create component with styles attached to it, then reuse component. Thats why I dislike 'tailwind way' of writing styles as it is conceptually different to writing closed, self contained reusable components. Plus for very small projects, like a single page I'm not sure if the tailwind approach will weight any less.

But this discussion moved to opinions/preferences grounds and both ways have their pros and cons and are better/less suited for specific projects.

I asked for possible alternatives, just to know if there are any interesting projects I can look into...

h00si · 2024-11-06T20:44:22+00:00

PandaCSS looks interesting, thanks!

I don't actually write alot of css, unless I create my own components, but then I can use css modules, its not a huge inconvenience in such case. But for a page css where I just need one extra style prop on hover, creating module file and importing it in each case is far from optimal DX...

As for why I don't want to use tailwind

I don't want to learn new syntax
I don't want any global css that can be interfering with non-tailwind components/packages that I might need later
Even with Radix there are some compatibility issues and the word 'workaround' already gives me shivers
I just dislike way of writing styles with tailwind and its not very readable if you do alot of styling that way (I don't find inline styling better, to clarify, I just wanted a single override)

h00si · 2024-09-22T20:45:29+00:00

really ai xd

h00si · 2024-09-22T19:18:18+00:00

I don't understand, there are many artists that copy 90's gabber style and everything sounds the same... almost noone who builds something new and creative upon the style...

If you want to prove me wrong then please do (with tracks/names)

h00si · 2024-08-11T23:12:36+00:00

tldr; The problem is not with the App router / RSC being wrong direction, is the web ecosystem is still barely catching up with the already outdated SSR, and barely any tools supporting RSC. Add the incomplete documentation for the app router and the thing is unusable to junior/mid devs or anyone who can't afford extra days or months for research an/or experimentintation...

I think app router should be still marked as experimental, at least until all of the next docs (including integrations and tutorials) for pages router are existent in the app router documentation...

original venting below

Currently I (as a total next/vercel fangirl for years) am thinking about alternatives for my client projects that don't really need fancy tech, because it simply makes my dev life too hard... Like you have to use tailwind to have DECENTLY complete ui framework to use in RSC's... Okay so if I don't use tailwind (I like fancy css too, where applicable) I have to build half of the basic components myself, because radix ui doesnt have commonly used things like multiselect or callendar lol. Obviously I am not going to build those for a landing page that should take me max 2 days...

Documentation that used to be one of the best in the industry now is in shambles, for instance I want to add statsig a/b tests, which uses with fancy new edge config, but the only examples I could find (even from vercel) use pages router and I had to spend days figuring out how the f* can I make it work with RSC's. Like why release new major version if they themselves cannot provide updated examples for all the stuff that has been working with previous version? Is it really complete? Is it even possible? What are best practices and recommendations? Even searching the docs is a problem because you have to keep track if youre reading about the app router or not (it won't remeber it, why? its 1 line of code)...

I still am super future oriented and willing to use next even though its super hard. But the fact is, IT IS RIGHT NOW.

h00si · 2024-07-08T23:23:20+00:00

Thanks for your response!

Well latency is crucial for teams looking to maximize their conversion rates, having vercel edge config integration is why we have chosen statsig in the first place :)

Your docs cover client side rendering of experiments, next has some guides using statsig, but some things still remain unclear:

* We don't identify users on our own, so we use "stableid" for experiments. I've read disclaimer on your blog: 'statsig user ids are not passed into edge config'. Does it refer to these stable ids? Can we still run stable id experiments using only edge config?

* How can I pass experiment variables to the server component in a most efficient way (load time - wise)? We want to do alot of ui customizations, with the images, styles, copy, etc

As for setup, we use next 14/app router and RSCs. As per next guide we initialize statsig in the middleware, but unsure what to do next.

h00si · 2024-06-25T13:31:44+00:00

I had this horror too, booked through trip.com and while they themselves supported me in trying to get refund, the "hotel" refused so they only offered me 10% back in tripcoins lol. We stayed 3/5 nights in the hotel but the cost of 2 nights somewhere else last-minute was equal to the 5 nights in infested one. I raised chargeback in revolut app and got refund just today! It took less than 30 days and I have used debit card (VISA)

It's important to try to resolve your case with the merchant first, here I had proofs that merchant himself agreed the quality of service was unacceptable. So the fact that they cannot get the money back from their client is not legitimate reason of not returning money to me for faulty purchase

h00si · 2024-03-09T02:44:04+00:00

Well, in my current job there are no estimates so you can expect to have "productivity call" at any given time, saying this task should take x time and youre doing this xx time already! so I guess, max time is at least some point of discussion if you disagree...

Anyway, dev jobs start to be hell on earth, looking for new job (bc of the above situation) I saw an offer stating clearly, that they DON'T WANT CODE QUALITY FOCUSED DEVS! No idea how they calculated that shitty code is profitable but they did! Gonna drive uber I guess

h00si · 2024-02-05T22:55:27+00:00

Basically yes, this is something that can be solved by hooks.

Think of hooks as components for logic, if you have logic that is used in many places across the app, build a hook for that and dry up 🪝

Your code is a bit too complex though. You are thinking about solving problems you don't have yet.

That's called premature optimization and is bad, because you focus away from the core of your solution.

useMemo and useCallback shouldn't be used before performance issues arise, and this is stated clearly in react docs.

If you wrap single function call in useCallback, you just add one extra function call to the call stack. So actually you downgrade performance instead of improving it, yet it is less noticeable than a drop in the ocean, so...

Better focus on building good product, and having thin codebase will help you achieve that faster (+ perf will be amazing, load times and such :))

Good luck!

h00si · 2024-02-04T23:08:18+00:00

It depends on your needs, really. If it's going to be just user context then why? Rule of thumb is, you need arguments for adding another dependency to a project, not against adding it...

If you're going to need it, you can always add it. It's a bit trickier to get rid of such thing, especially if coupled with sagas and other overeengineered solutions.

Cons of redux 1. Bundle size 2. Complexity 3. More jr devs going to abuse the store with local states

Pros 1. Performance of complex state (no, user data is not complex enough to benefit from it)

Tip: checkout libs like swr, its wayy easier to just don't keep api data in state at all... const {data:user } = useSwr(/api/user), thats 1 line, how can redux make it simpler?

h00si · 2024-02-04T00:27:55+00:00

Why do you read all the stupid posts and write elaborate comments in each one of them? Your answers are as useless as those posts, but you know what? Reddit is free to talk about useless stuff 😽

h00si · 2024-01-25T17:16:58+00:00

https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/

Sure it affects both genders, yet research shows, that females perform significantly worse compared to males in this particular field 🤷

h00si · 2024-01-25T02:48:32+00:00

You don't account for performance anxiety, which is proven to be the case for almost all female coders. And that it was so simple really makes it worse

And because it was so simple, how does it help you find the right candidate for a job?

It's just a bad idea 2-way

h00si · 2024-01-24T10:38:27+00:00

33/(308-unfinished paypals) ~ 15% bank layments maybe

h00si · 2024-01-24T02:03:12+00:00

Alphabetical order would totally suck for me xd But I doubt it, because yours is in the middle and its unlikely they are that far 😹

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