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I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

you can vibe code all of it who cares lie to yourself pretend it's a clever strategy but everyone will know they can feel it in your work how lazy you've become how little you care because how you do one thing is how you do everything

i didn't think this would be a big deal or happen so fast but i'm seeing teams nerf their own ability to use their brains because of llm dependence and when they run into a problem the llm can't fix they start doing really weird stuff

The people who just blindly toss AI shit over a wall onto other humans without using their brain for even a nanosecond deserve shaming. We need to start a public wall of shame for the public identities (not doxing) of these people so we can have bots that just block them. I don't care at all if you do this in your own projects, but when you cross a boundary where another human has to interact with you, its common courtesy to at the very least spend any amount of time at all thinking (the horror).

software engineers after automating software engineering and having no jobs

The more I use AI to code, the less I "use" it

me when i come across an exceptionally well-crafted personal website

You aren't paid to "get it working". You're paid to make an incremental change to an existing codebase in a way that doesn't break what was happening, and is easier to make changes to in the future

If Grok 5 turns out to be better at AI engineering than Andrej Karpathy, I’ll call it — that’s AGI. Zuck doesn’t need billions to hire an AI researcher anymore. Andrej mentioned his repos (like nanochat) were entirely handwritten, and claude/codex agents were net unhelpful. Current LLMs struggle with out-of-distribution code, the code that isn’t boilerplate or common patterns. The code written by people like Andrej, Linus, or Geohot is out-of-distribution. No LLMs today can match their ability to craft large, coherent, solid systems in a unique personal style.

@ptr_to_joel > code became a black box to me honestly good riddance by the company Vibe coding is fine but you need to know what you’re doing

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“Give me six hours to vibe code agentic b2b SaaS and I will spend the first four hours writing the prompt” Abraham Lincoln (YC W25)

AI has made creativity & logic the two most important skills you can possess... it is a vehicle - it doesn't matter how good it is if you don't know how to drive it it can not invent new things, it can only remix existing ideas, hence why creativity is still necessary AI is a tool, it will do what you say, so the bottleneck becomes how you structure your prompts - understanding how to engineer prompts to get your desired output is an extension of logic

Of course, you should still learn to code. Even if nobody writes code in five years. Why? I know how to write a qsort, and I've done that zero times. But I know when qsort is appropriate. I know how to write a hash table, and so I know when std::map is appropriate. In five years, there will be prompt-engineers and software engineers. And the best software engineers will remain the ones who could have written it themselves, but didn't have to. Unless and until we see an AI that can manage the complexity of, for example, producing the Linux Kernel from whole cloth, I don't see the demand for engineers going down any time soon. But they will get a lot more done.

guy who just discovered project that has been in development for years: - hey guys have you considered doing things very differently? 😃

just putting this here for my fellow new engineers

Programming is understanding. If you don't understand what you are doing, you are not programming. You are generating text.

Imagine writing untyped JS More bugs, worse go-to-definition and LSP, no type hints for APIs Typed JS also likely runs faster for inline caching reasons

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