Why “write” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
> LLMs write better code than humans with fewer bugs. They also do it much much faster so you can spend all the remaining time testing. So does that mean you should never look a…
by rvz · Nov 8, 2026
Hi Stephan, Great concept and very real application. Adding Cloudflare Workers with D1 & R2 binding would be a nice addition to your list. As you said AI generated apps are bein…
by Mangrove007 · Nov 8, 2026
Yes. Leaves a lot to be desired UX wise, has no good defaults, and still allows many holes that you need to dig to know (e.g. its own write tools vs bash). Built my own with App…
by coldtea · Nov 8, 2026
So nice to read a write up like this. Not afraid to use AI tools, but still writing up the project personally from the perspective of the human running the show.
by jrmg · Nov 8, 2026
Removing the emoji won't help the readability much on this one. The LLM vibes are dialed up to 11, sadly. I wish people would just write their readmes themselves.
by epihelix · Nov 8, 2026
Basically they shift the process into the code generation by abstraction. But if agents write intent and acceptance criteria into the PR, and this seems to be the case, the poin…
by runwithdata · Nov 8, 2026
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Writing is the act of creating a persistent, usually visual representation of language on a surface. As a structured system of communication, writing is also known as written language. Historically, written languages have emerged as a way to record corresponding spoken languages. A particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which they encode a particular spoken language, is known as a writing system. In some rare cases, writing may be tactile rather than visual. Read more on Wikipedia