Tell HN: AI programming has turned my "scope creep" to "scope leap"
The article discusses the evolution of AI programming and its impact on software development. It highlights the potential for creating super apps that integrate numerous features, which was previously unfeasible. The author emphasizes the importance of customer communication to effectively translate their needs into functional software.
- ▪AI programming has enabled the development of super apps that require extensive features.
- ▪Building all necessary features can provide businesses with unprecedented capabilities.
- ▪Engaging with customers is crucial for translating their expertise into effective software solutions.
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Record
| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380952 |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:19:57 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T07:21:58.813Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T07:21:58.813Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | lZwVU6ItML5F |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Stop. Talk to customers.There are a category of super apps that haven’t really been possible before because they threshold of utility required too many features to realistically build. Think SAP or EPIC or an operating engine to run an enterprise. But now they are possible and building all the features will give a business something they have never had.But you still need to talk to customers to translate their domain expertise into prompts into code.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.