Ask HN: Dealing with Vibe Coding Depression?

The creators at these companies are making all their bets that the switch between interpolate and extrapolate will happen at sometime in the very near future.

If and when that fails to materialize (as I think you could argue some companies are already recognizing is coming, ie Microsoft), the bubble will burst.

Where we go depends on the philosophy we apply, and there's way too little philosophy for what to do when AI upends your intellectual craft profession.

All businesses exist to serve a customer, and to help them achieve the outcomes they desire, so to the extent that you can apply these skills to those outcomes then you'll continue to be gainfully employed in a business context.

I think zero sum applications of software like internal tools with fixed scopes will rapidly be automated away with these tools. By comparison, positive sum product engineering of novel technologies seem like they are still hiring.

Would focus on bridging your technical skills into product engineering and deeply understanding a specific customer domain, invest in EQ through coaching and therapy and continue adopting AI tools to optimize your work.

But photography created a lot more images and ikea allowed people to own a lot more furniture.

If we draw a parallel, it means that we’re going to see a lot more production of tech stuff. Like tailor made video games for a specific individual, custom apps for local businesses / institutions, etc.

This could lead to a lower dependency on the big platform, and perhaps to actually more work.

Impossible to be sure though

me the first time my boss forced me to unit test my code

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The best thing you can do is listen to your gut and try to act as rationally as you can.

Talk with trusted mentors if you've got them. Don't listen to me and for the love of god don't listen to people on HN or reddit or Youtube or any other social media.

Nobody knows what they're talking about and they certainly don't know how it'll impact you.

If somebody is making you feel afraid, left behind/out, inferior -- they're trying to sell you shit. Don't listen to the bullies and con artists.

You're entitled to your opinion. If you think AI output is crap, it's crap. Don't be pressured to conform. This is supposed to be hackernews after all. There are plenty of companies using java 8 today. You won't be unhireable.

That's where we are right now. The best bespoke hand-crafted coders are far less valuable than they used to be.

It sucks for the weavers who loved to weave, but this is the consequence of technological progress.

And when I did use LLMs, I found that they were wasting time by spitting some code that I have to then piece together, troubleshoot or debug.

> The painter finds joy in painting, and the result is valued because

Engineers are not painters in one very fundamental way!

Painter’s product is an asset. Software engineer’s code is a liability.

Painter is an artist, creating art. Its primary purpose is in itself.

Software engineer is a craftsman, he creates a mean to an end. A tool to reach product/business goal.

Instead of spending days updating a software package to the latest version, to get the exact same features I already had, I can focus my time prioritizing features and designing the code infrastructure.

With abundance coming around the corner for coding, anyone write code, which means software engineers will be needed more than ever.

There will always be new jobs.