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The death of inbound applications is upon us: and yes, it’s in a big part because of AI making it dead simple to apply. And so inbound applications become noisy, with increasingly more of non-qualified people. And so companies rely on referrals and recruiters to source instead.

@brankopetric00 While the engineer who vibe codes and delivers shoddy code at 2x the speed will get the kudo and pats on the back

the engineer who quietly keeps everything running gets less recognition than the one who fixes the outage they caused

@JadeCole2112 Yeah, how is the AI coding agent going to bypass Apple reviewers?

WTF are you talking about???

@elvin_not_11 Love it when Microsoft goes retro

it's beautiful that I can traverse through 25 years of UI design history by clicking 3 times on Windows 11.

@_trish_xD Assembly

Programming language you learned once but never touched again?

@jasonbosco @cryptopatrick Taking pride in not looking at the code is misplaced pride and it will come back to bite them. I still do manual code reviews even with LLM coding most of my stuff

@cryptopatrick Yeah, you could. I wish folks spent the time doing this. I sadly see a trend of taking pride in not looking at the code generated by LLMs

I see a new form of tech debt coming for dev teams - Comprehension debt. As more and more code is generated by LLMs, if teams don’t take the time to understand deeply what the generated code is doing, as well as code they write by hand… It’s only a matter of time before the code base starts looking unfamiliar to most of the team. It then becomes harder to discern if new code that LLMs generate is adding more spaghetti or if there’s a better approach. It’s a downward spiral from there - unrelated things break with every change despite existing tests passing, no one knows the full picture to be able to fix the root cause, not even an LLM, etc. So as tempting as it is to move super fast with LLMs, there’s only so much comprehension debt you can rack up before your code base silently becomes a Rube Goldberg machine under your nose.

@MingtaKaivo @jasonbosco Nice. That is something I should look into for my team

hit this at AudioWave around month 4. everything worked, tests passed, shipped fine. then one module broke and i realized i couldn't explain how 3 connected services actually talked to each other. the fix that worked: once a week pick one thing the agent built and explain it out loud. if you can't, you didn't review it. 30min/week stopped the debt from compounding

Most of the people who think that AI will replace developers are: - Managers who don’t code - Investors and startup founders selling it - People outside tech Developers: "It's helpful."

Congrats on having fun and building a vibe coded WYSIWYG editor Patiently waiting for when they’ll realize things like permissions, tagging, backups+disaster recovery, search, exports, tables, mobile app, integrations w Slack+Linear+others need to be built… 🍿

@SebJohnsonUK I'll drink to that

"AI is going to cure cancer and create abundance for everyone" Meanwhile in Ireland:

@JeremyNguyenPhD I remember doing that back when I was 6 or 7. Good memories

Anyone else spend hours as a 7-year-old kid typing code from a Zzap magazine onto your C64, trying to get it to run? It was like doing the Chinese Room experiment before I knew what that was

@lopp You're absolutely right!

Consider that the dumbest people you know are repeatedly being told "You're absolutely right!" by LLMs.

@asaio87 That's why we get AI to read it on our behalf

Nobody wants to read AI-generated code.

Is it just me, but for every tweet where the profile image is a company instead of a person. My default thinking is that this is just AI generated text without someone actually typing/dictating the text. And my next action is to either mute or block that account. Am i being too harsh?

@buccocapital My bet is that it is going be like Klarna who had to rehire CS agents (live ones, not the bits and bytes type) again

Seems dumb and backwards The documentation is the literal brain of a company’s AI models, and the external ones Probably an area to double down, not replace

@andersonbcdefg Can't wait for the 'Rewrite Nextjs in Assembly' episode to begin

people are discovering the "rewrite everything in fast language with codex" life hack

Hard to read code create strong developers. Strong developers create Python. Python create vibe coders. And, vibe coders create hard to read code.

@Appyg99 Actually, the answer is 'It depends'. If I want to buy a cheap lightning cable for my iPhone. I don't mind letting my agent buy it for me. But if I am buying a house, on the other hand

As someone that was a true believer of agentic commerce last year & ultra skeptic this year — The problem is this belief that humans want agents shopping for them. Other than a few efficiency obsessed nerds, most customers don't just hand off their wallet to some bot to buy stuff without being able to be a part of the decision irrespective of what the stated preferences are. Shopping is a conscious and important decision for 90% of households. A pleasurable hobby for many. Unless somehow you manage to change this human behavior (highly unlikely), agentic commerce needs to be restructured around discovery and less around payments and actual conversion.

@yacineMTB I guess with LLMs doing the heavy lifting. The limit is not how much coding knowledge you have. But how many ideas you have

Man what are they feeding these kids. Every university student I talk to is doing some really incredible stuff. Rocketry, building battle bots, designing PCBs, robot arms, cutting antennas out with box cutters. Is it because of LLMs? My class was nowhere near this smart

@yongfook Maybe the person is tired of running the SAAS and wants to move on to something non tech? I dunno. Maybe become a goose farmer, or something?

Unless you need a big chunk of cash for buying a house or something, I don't understand why anyone would sell a SaaS at a 3x multiple. Just keep it, print money, and own the IP. Am I missing something?