> We’ve all collectively figured out what sustainable AI-assisted development looks like, and it turns out to be more structured than those early vibes.
Is this satire of AI hype? Genuinely can't tell if he's being serious.
> Here’s the question a lot of developers are sitting with: do we lose some of our cognitive abilities if we’re reduced to reviewers? If we’re not writing the code, are we still thinking deeply about the problems? Or are we reduced to pattern-matching against LLM output, slowly atrophying the muscles we spent years building?
No, absolutely not. Please don't start to think that by not doing stuff on your own, you miss out on keeping yourself sharp and trained and on improving in this stuff.
If developers who have adopted LLMs for writing code start to think this, that might scare away some from using LLMs at all, and this weakens my evil plan to make a lot of money fixing their code with my intact coding abilities, especially when these LLM tools are going to get crazy expensive because at some point they will need to be sustainably funded, when I'll still be somewhat affordable in comparison. I'd rather get rich quick by doing the same thing I've been doing for years, don't take this from me please.
A few days ago, I commented on a post. My comment was that vibe coding should no longer have a negative connotation because it is quickly, if not already, becoming the primary way to write software.
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Is this satire of AI hype? Genuinely can't tell if he's being serious.
No, absolutely not. Please don't start to think that by not doing stuff on your own, you miss out on keeping yourself sharp and trained and on improving in this stuff.
If developers who have adopted LLMs for writing code start to think this, that might scare away some from using LLMs at all, and this weakens my evil plan to make a lot of money fixing their code with my intact coding abilities, especially when these LLM tools are going to get crazy expensive because at some point they will need to be sustainably funded, when I'll still be somewhat affordable in comparison. I'd rather get rich quick by doing the same thing I've been doing for years, don't take this from me please.