I thought I try to debunk your argument with a food example. I am not sure I succeeded though. Judge for yourself:

It's always easier to blame the ingredients and convince yourself that you have some sort of talent in how you cook that others don't.

In my experience the differences are mostly in how the dishes produced in the kitchen are tasted. Chefs who have experience tasting dishes critically are more likely to find problems immediately and complain they aren't getting great results without a lot of careful adjustments. And those who rarely or never tasted food from other cooks are invariably going to miss stuff and rate the dishes they get higher.

In your example the one making the food is you. You would have to introduce a cooking robot for the analogy to match agentic coding.

Actually I would say it should be a cooking machine like. I am not too familiar with these machines however.

I miss the inner journeys mostly. The heroic journey is boring if the hero doesn’t change.

Isn’t that the reason why people advocate for spec-driven development instead of vibe coding?

One major contributing factor, in my opinion, is that almost no one in the community was taught the scientific method / epistemology itself.

The simple fact that theories should be falsified and not verified is something that most scientists don’t know.

Yes, it’s the "sum" of which you extract an average.

Helping each other out is human isn't it?

@dang, how do you curate these? Manually?

Have you thought about sourcing these by looking at the most favorited comments per week?

Manually, some by ourselves and some nominated by readers.

That's a good idea btw - here are some of the most-favorited comments from this past week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258500

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238442

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237467

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226535

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214629

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47210627

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206393

Only a couple of those were already in /highlights.

I'm not sure yet whether this is good enough to be an automatic feed into /highlights but I could imagine adding aggregated /favorites pages to https://news.ycombinator.com/lists.

@dang: these are amazing! Real useful gems... I think they are different than the highlight ones, seems like people favorite them because of their utility mostly.

Would love to see it as /favorites in the lists page!

Thanks! Didn’t know this existed.

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