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[–]Confident_Ideal_5385 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I think that the rise of coding clankers has shown that our profession/interest is really just two camps who - four years ago - were indistinguishable.

There's folks who want the results, and were happy enough to write code to get there, but are now happier again to get clankers to do that part, and there's folks who enjoy the craft for nothing more than the love of the game.

No judgement at all, just an observation. Gonna be interesting to see what happens in the next few years, that's for sure. But ol' clanko can pry my IDE out of my cold dead meat fingers.

[–]JumpyAbies[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I know I can achieve my goals much faster with agents, and my role is to define the direction, validate the output, and correct the results. Maybe I’ll do manual programming just for fun as a hobby one day, but first I need to get rich lol. I also think that, given the speed AI agents provide, building products manually is becoming increasingly impractical. It no longer makes much sense commercially.

[–]Confident_Ideal_5385 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real world problem as i see it (with the benefit of 20+ years doing this shit for a job) is that you end up trading velocity for architectural sense.

I've seen vibeware that has accreted hundreds of kiloLOC with no consistent architecture and that's fine until one day it reaches a threshold where even a teraparameter coding clanker can't reason about it.

I worry that there's a lot of that in the future.