What AI-Native Looks Like

fagnerbrack 24 points 30 comments September 23, 2026
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luc_

Seems more like AI-in-the-loop more than AI-native. I feel like this post didn't teach me anything I didn't already know or have an intuition about.

mikert89

Ai native is only a term for the present moment. There is still skill in using ai. We are fast approaching where you ask the ai, and it does the task, there is no wrangling it

ashg10297

So what does it look like? This is a load of booster talk tuned to reel in the devs who appreciate *****.

randusername

I'm starting to notice AI power users communicating in a shorthand tech-speak I find unintelligible. I genuinely cannot follow the individual points in this article or what the overall arc is. Is this something that was already part of web dev or is it new?

hollowturtle

Looking for a job? This sounds like personal marketing speech rather than a blog worth reading, no new insights no nothing

mijoharas

Getting a 502 error. I had to come to the comments to check whether that was the joke.

dkobia

13,000 tests. That tells you everything you need to know. It doesn't matter how experienced you say you are, if AI is doing all the work including writing and running tests because I know no human is actually reviewing these. I've recently found tests written by Fable that don't actually do anything in a very large codebase. My point is not to advocate for doing any of this manually, but to highlight one of the problems brought about by pumping out so much code. I hate to sound cynical, but I don't know if bragging about being AI-native is something any of us should be doing. We're really just pulling a lever on a slot machine and crossing our fingers.

nitwit005

> 99.9% uptime (CloudWatch, Feb to Sep, insert your real number) Did we forget to insert the real number?

NichoPaolucci

Does this implementation really require this robust of infra / setup? The entire stack feels overkill for a repo that has 2 followers and 29 stars. I also am probably not the target demographic though, I just download things that I want to preserve and completely forget about them in a folder called 0_archive. I just feel like in 2013 some fella would have had this project running on an old laptop in his garage hooked up to FTP and the uptime would be comparable. I also love when AI adds tidbits like this: > and staging has to pass before prod deploys. Thanks for the clarity on that, Claude, you read my mind.

YuechenLi

Well, what I found "AI native software" to be is "usable heedlessly via scripts/CLI with UI being optional", because that's how LLM agents naturally interact with software. Also, I'm really not sure this bookmark project/website/extension would require 6 months of Claude with 6 of them running continuously to build.

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