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Ask HN: How Do You "Not Write Any Code by Hand" with a Token Budget?

2•mc-0•1h ago
With some corporate environments going from "tokenmaxxing at all costs" to now setting strict token budgets for agentic development:

How is one supposed to adhere to a managerial / leadership instruction of "use AI for everything" but even more than that: "you shouldn't be writing code by hand"?

It feels like this is a Russian roulette scenario. As long as you have the right harness, framework, skills, prompt, etc. to make the output as deterministic as possible AND know exactly what you're supposed to be building: you get a great output that meets acceptance criteria & solves the problem.

None of this is standardized and concrete tasks don't currently have predictable pricing (i.e., "Two new CRUD endpoints with tests are $1.43"). So what's stopping performance reviews from valuing what you can deliver ONLY with AI rather than what you can deliver with AI assistance?

Show HN: Make No Mistakes – AI coding agents must prove their work

https://github.com/momomuchu/make-no-mistakes
1•mohamedmaache•1m ago•0 comments

Tanenbaum–Torvalds Debate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate
1•chistev•1m ago•0 comments

OpenCQRS 2.0: Tests That Read Like the Domain

https://docs.eventsourcingdb.io/blog/2026/07/06/opencqrs-20-tests-that-read-like-the-domain/
1•goloroden•3m ago•0 comments

AI Workflows Need Topological Sort

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/ai-topological-sort/
1•ashutosh-aanand•3m ago•0 comments

How is Zig working out after 3 years and 100k lines of game code? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpUShkr2VQ
1•roflcopter69•3m ago•0 comments

Low-level is easy (2008)

https://yosefk.com/blog/low-level-is-easy.html
1•downbad_•3m ago•0 comments

Outgrowing the Chat Box

https://www.nnehdi.me/p/outgrowing-the-chat-box
1•nnehdi•8m ago•0 comments

Small Penis Rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule
3•chistev•11m ago•0 comments

Robots Are Coming for All Jobs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCsYVL-v-3A
1•Bender•13m ago•0 comments

Mastgate – Fediverse Relay Filter

https://github.com/ahmed-debbech/mastgate
1•bhhhhhhcc•14m ago•0 comments

Describing All My Photos

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/describing-my-photos/
1•Tomte•14m ago•0 comments

Ghosts of Our Lives: On Ryan Armand, Tronicbox and Occasional Immortality

https://morbidcuriosity.substack.com/p/ghosts-of-our-lives
1•pnwpnw•14m ago•1 comments

America's 250th became a test of AI-powered Collective Intelligence

https://venturebeat.com/technology/how-americas-250th-birthday-became-a-test-of-ai-powered-collec...
2•hogwash•16m ago•0 comments

French wildfires force officials to ban public from Tour de France's third stage

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/french-wildfires-jeopardise-finish-line-tour-de-fran...
2•geox•19m ago•0 comments

Meta-access problem faced by academics – and how to solve it

https://hookproductivity.com/solutions/hookmark-for-academics/
2•LucCogZest•23m ago•0 comments

Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/16/1132526/allison-nixon-hackers-security-researcher/
2•naves•23m ago•0 comments

Has China obtained the most important machine?

https://www.economist.com/china/2026/07/05/has-china-obtained-the-worlds-most-important-machine
3•pingou•32m ago•1 comments

Bipartisan bill fails to protect consumers from datacenters' true costs

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/05/ratepayer-protection-act-datacenters
2•p_stuart82•32m ago•0 comments

New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]

https://intextbooks.science.uu.nl/workshop2026/files/itb26_s1s2.pdf
17•jonahbard•32m ago•2 comments

Collision in space is not evidence of dark matter after all?

https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/collision-in-space-is-not-evidence-of-dark-matter-after-all
2•mpweiher•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nomlings – a virtual pet that eats your Claude Code session's tokens

https://www.nomlings.cc/
2•franwbu•33m ago•0 comments

GitHub Pages deployments seem to be broken for some users over past few days

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/200823
2•exaroth•33m ago•0 comments

You Need a Webring

https://shub.club/writings/2026/july/you-need-a-webring/
5•forthwall•34m ago•1 comments

Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/atomic-semi-rebrands-as-fab2-and-shifts-operations-to-...
5•logickkk1•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Video Effects SDK – Face Avatars

https://effectssdk.ai/sdk/dev/avatars.html
2•mda_damico•36m ago•0 comments

Driving in China as a Tourist

https://ian.sh/driving-in-china-as-a-tourist
2•appwiz•38m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What metrics do you track when building agents?

2•rstagi•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Diffy – browser extension for faster GitHub PR review experience

https://github.com/suveshmoza/diffy
3•suveshmoza•46m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Who is the best computer programmer of all times?

4•xqb64•47m ago•7 comments

Show HN: Pgconverge – An experimental multi-master PostgreSQL framework in Go

2•sobowalebukola•47m ago•0 comments