Edit: and it will probably also lead in most major benchmarks which says next to nothing about the quality.
My CTO is pushing 30k line PRs and when asked “how do you know it works” all he can say is “I’m not sure but it probably does. Our customers can QA”. Meanwhile I’m cleaning up half vibed messes from my coworkers that demo’d well.
They’re very powerful, but I think their marketing departments are even more powerful. I do wonder how many of these comments are real people.
Have you actually used these tools?
They work like magic but are not magical. Theres a skill in using them well, and getting good output. Its not just an automatic free lunch button. Good engineers become great engineers and the gap widens, as juniors/outsourcing gets pushed out of the market.
It probably helps that I am a skilled programmer while being an expert in another domain.
My software development has gone from write/read/execute to read/execute and I’m fine with that.
My worry is that the agentic stuff is reportedly a significant improvement and getting better quickly.
Why is everyone so worried about poison going away?
> Why is everyone so worried about poison going away?
Hello, aloof galaxy-brain. If you weren't aware, we live in a capitalist economy. In capitalism, if you don't have money you are in a state we call "poor," which means your life is difficult and your living standards bad. Most people rely on having a job to make money, and usually need a well-paying job to be comfortable and secure.
AI isn't going to change any of that. It's not going to make energy, or land or housing more abundant, in fact it will probably make all of those things more scarce.
If the future doesn't have "jobs," there will probably be a holocaust of workers before we get there. IMHO, that's more likely that some kind of utopian techno-socialism.
Would you want that?
Isn't a house too personal that you'd want to get a professional architect with experience to design it, and sign off on it? Even if they used advanced tools like CAD and copy pastes 8/10 of it?
Sure, you can probably one shot notepad.exe but it has no meaning. Meaningful work isn't going anywhere, for the reason that meaningful work lives and lives on by people for people.
No one wants a vibe designed car, unless you are one of those psychos that has no tastes and doesn't care about anything.
I'd love to work and vibecode the house to my full liking, assuming that the agent harness will take care of all the nonfunctional things (stable design, zoning etc). Same for car if I could customize it I would.
(I definitely don't like the ramifications of it on the economy/jobs, but the above are pure consumer wins, no doubt)
Until we can reliably trust these models to skip that last step, there is nothing inherently wrong with using AI to create, so long as it is manually reviewed for accuracy at the end.
Learn everything that you can about AI and you will be a great resource. Otherwise, learn a trade. Electricians will be required...........
Becoming an electrician would be a downgrade or even impossible for some people.
For the record, I think AI replacing highly paid "sitting behind a computer" jobs would be good for the society, but probably not for most people having these jobs.
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I think it’s premature to say what’s going to beat what though
