Posted by dimonomid 18 hours ago
has the author not started to develop instincts with regard to ai usage and pitfalls?
you won’t lose your expertise if you continue to develop it, and blaming ai is like blaming macros or installers or…
the game hasn’t changed, really, but many are fretting that it has fallen apart.
Writing code is like many things. One means of producing the output.
dumbest take ever. AI is here and not going away, any company that does so will not survive or will be a niche thing for hippies.
i wouldn't know a single engineer who'd want to work at a place like that
Just because it's bad for a human doesn't necessarily mean everything will fall apart - unless a human has to maintain it unaided.
The latter often doesn't even require looking at the code, you can usually feel it just by using the software. From my experience, all software primarily written by AI is full of little bugs and inconsistencies that reflect bad code architecture (such as two very similar pieces of functionality in two different places behaving in wildly different ways, due to the AI being unaware of the first when asked to implement the second and writing the code twice)
I've vibecoded loads of AI apps for myself and almost none of them are still in use. Not because I didn't really want them or they didn't work, but because the more I used them the dirtier I felt, as though I could feel the bad decisions and the bugs underneath just by interacting with it.
Build the systems around the code and let the agents do their work.