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0 pointsthrow-10-85mo ago0 comments

took me a week to build a poker bot in 2006 that earned me $1000 a week during college, and that was self imposed because I didn't want to raise any flags.

It was based on a world of warcraft bot that I modified, and I learned a lot during the process.

What you call wasted mechanical work I call the foundations of a career that changed my life.

Take away the AI and this guy has nothing but an idea. An old idea that has already been done to death, and none of the skills required to actually implement it and maintain it.

You might not like writing code, but that is the job no matter how many natural language layers you put on top of it.

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alansammarone5mo ago

Just to make a small addition to my comment, which also addresses the sibling and child replies.

I 100% agree that any good professional still needs (with or without AI) the "design, engineer, and knowledge of your constraints". I'm not arguing against that. Those are, in fact, part of what I find most fun about programming, and the reason why I fought through the typing boredom since I was 13. I'm also not a vibe coder.

I'm just saying all of that is somewhat orthogonal to the typing of code itself. With strong typing (as in type theory - I still write the types, sometimes signatures for interfaces, etc) and other tooling, you really can get a lot done by delegating the bulk of the implementation to these tools.

Mashimo5mo ago

Correct, but HE does not enjoy it.

If someone makes a 3D printer for houses there is probably someone who will say laying bricks "is the real job"

It's just someone writing about his vibe coding experience. Not interesting for me, but then again I stopped reading half way and am not telling people to stop.

throw-10-8OP5mo ago

The 3D printer analogy doesn't hold up though, that implies design, engineer, and knowledge of your constraints.

It's more like a pachinko machine that rewards the user with house like objects that may or may not work.

If the user builds their house with it and it collapses and kills their family fine, but you can't use a system like that to build anything where you might have external liability because fundamentally you don't understand the problem domain and an ai model cannot hold a civil engineering license and be held liable for structural collapse.

averageRoyalty5mo ago

Sorry, I'm pretty sure you didn't read the article. OP didn't build a poker bot, you seem to have just seen the title and assumed.

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