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We should be more ambitious with the software we build

What HN thinks

Everyone agrees we should be ambitious; nobody agrees whether a faster ripgrep counts.

Process and review are the bottleneck
Faster code writing means little if PR review, team friction and deciding what to build stay slow; some argue for async review and stronger test suites instead of reading every line.
AI enables long-shelved side projects
Many share ambitious personal builds (native Rust GUIs, Kobo SDKs, codebase visualizers, interpreters) that were impractical before, while noting models churn once complexity crosses a threshold.
Ambition should mean real-world value
Critics say faster dev tools and tools-for-agents aren't ambitious; real ambition is helping non-technical people, and post-MVP work, taste and restraint remain human jobs.

Consensus: Most agree AI makes building much cheaper, but quality, review, maintainability and choosing worthwhile problems still require human judgment.

Recommended in the comments

Crux ↗ (library): Suggested as a way to build native, non-Electron apps in Rust.
HAProxy (tool): Benchmarked far better than an AI-written Python load balancer.
Magit (tool): Praised as a pleasant way to review agent-generated changes.
Ghidra (tool): Paired with LLMs for some of the most novel reverse-engineering uses.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 1 day ago.

Points: 849
Comments: 728
Best rank: #1
Posted: 2026-10-24 by ltratt
Category: Ai ml

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