Posted by Risse 5 hours ago
- Why should I even start vibing up my desired tools and projects when I can just wait it out so a better clanker emerges 6 months down the line?
- What guarantee is there that Rust is the best programming language for vibe coding when the models could improve to directly output assembly? What incentive do you have in vibing up something?
To answer your question: 1) do you want it now, or in six months? and 2) it will still take the same amount of human effort.
An agentic workflow lets me literally sit on my hands (or play Star Wars: Galactic Racer, or play my musical instrument, or work on my CAD hobby, etc) while the agent machine does my work for me.
The best part is that this is how my employer wants me to work. They literally want me to be lazy. Works for me!
Where is my incentive structure to not use AI?
[1] coding manually brings me a non-zero amount of joy and mental satisfaction and stimulation but I am still trading time for money.
2. I’m paid to be a warm body who is available. That’s I am paid salaried instead of hourly.
3. I don’t really care if this situation changes in the future. If AI takes my job there’s nothing I can personally do to stop that from happening. I’m just saving my money and planning to retire as early as possible. I view work as a necessary evil.
Generally, automation does not make us work less because the expectations rise equivalently.
To not use an LLM at all for software engineering? That’s just a joke. You can also deliver food with a bicycle. Good luck making a living doing that.
If you're afraid of being called a luddite, you've already lost.
You shouldn't value the opinion of those who would insult you for not wanting to offload something you find intellectually fulfilling to a machine.