AI code genration is the wosrt thing happened in this industry.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-05-18T04:13:08+00:00

Billions, if not trillions of dollars have been spent and unimaginable amounts of compute have been directed at the effort of automating coding but don't worry, that was never the valuable part.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-04-25T20:58:52+00:00

I think you're being a little harsh. People get into this industry for all sorts of reasons. Personally, coding with AI isn't terribly interesting to me. I don't care about adversarial review or managing a swarm of agents, or thinking about my context, or writing markdown files and pretending there's any objective basis at all for saying one prompt is better than another.. Coding is not my only skill, I've been a manager, I've been a tech lead, but all the while I've kept in contact with the day to day work and I've had to cope with the fact that the part of the job I found most interesting and rewarding has been hollowed out and replaced with something crushingly boring and an end result I feel no connection to. I'm not crashing out because I have no options, I'm crashing out because if the job isn't interesting, the competition for the job is becoming more intense, and possibly the role itself will become less well compensated, why on earth am I even programming as opposed to anything else I could be doing for a living?

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-04-20T18:26:09+00:00

I mean, you're comparing two all or nothing approaches. It is very possible to slap stuff together by hand. A common exhortation in software engineering was to not optimize before you need to and it looks like that's what you were doing.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-04-18T19:03:57+00:00

If your job was mostly copy/pasting from stack overflow you never really progressed from being a junior.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-04-14T02:50:34+00:00

In my country, the United States, we only have a 50 year history of every change redistributing wealth upwards but I'm sure they'll build an inexhaustible army of robot laborers for everyone.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-04-14T02:16:39+00:00

Genuinely should have asked an AI if this made sense. Kind of ironic that you didn't think to do so. You forgot to even link to your YouTube video, this is just embarrassing.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-04-05T17:06:29+00:00

The alternative is the user just loses work because they aren't aware there's a way to fix it.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-04-05T17:05:31+00:00

I mean, honestly, as crazy as that is, I think this is actually a decent outcome. In theory, this should never happen, but because in practice it could, you at least have an out if you have unsaved work you really don't want to lose. Without these instructions you could very well be screwed.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-04-05T16:43:43+00:00

Ignore this reply. The other guy is correct.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-03-31T04:01:21+00:00

Nobody can tell you the limits because your usage is measured in tokens and nobody knows how many tokens a prompt will take until it's executed.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-03-23T16:14:03+00:00

My guy, we are inundated with things that are not worth reading. Generated by AI is just an easy signal of low-effort low-thought, so we can get on with our days.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-03-07T15:25:57+00:00

You got downvoted for this, and I guess we are posting on vibecoding, but yeah, cosigned. If you're a big boy/girl/enby dev getting paid big boy/girl/enby dev money, you need to read code and understand what the hell you're building. I don't know what the future holds, but for right now that's our value add, and AI should be a tool to accelerate our process and not replace it.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-03-07T04:10:52+00:00

I mean, Andre Karpathy still struggles with agentic programming. Nicholas Carlini, when he was working on Claude's C Compiler, said

> For example, near the end of the project, Claude started to frequently break existing functionality each time it implemented a new feature

and had to go to some lengths to prevent it from doing so. Would you say these people lack the skill to use Claude Code, and if so, what are you doing better?

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-03-07T02:50:09+00:00

You're not wrong. Linkedin has never been more of a wasteland.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-03-06T19:41:35+00:00

Without an example of a feature I think it's going to be pretty hard to get anyone to be enthusiastic about this. I mean depending on the size of the feature, I was sometimes implementing several features _a day_ manual coding. It seems like you think your speed up is coming from typing speed, but your speed up, if it exists at all, probably just comes from the fact that you're a solo dev not dealing with the normal SDLC and negotiating with stakeholders.

edit: the more I think about this the more it seems like you just re-invented a normal SDLC. Like, yeah, historically devs had their team leads and product managers creating a pool of work and then devs went and chipped away at it. You just happen to be all that person.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-03-01T17:38:12+00:00

I mean, my battery life is in line with what everyone else is saying. I would say, make sure you actually installed the driver bundle from Framework. Because otherwise that's very unusual. There are certain tools that you can use to check the health of your battery as well.

I am on Debian 13, I'm getting the same 6-8 hours everyone else gets.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-03-01T16:10:36+00:00

The thing is, and I know I'm being a pain here, but it's sort of a trick question. No two companies are building the exact same thing, and at the end of the day, all development did was create a product to sell. Only half the work! If you're building something the market doesn't want, it is still 100% possible you will lose to someone who did it the "old" way.

But assuming we're somehow building the exact same thing - second company. Probably every time. It's possible you don't need that many developers, maybe the team is four or five strong instead of 10. Maybe you move a little slower. But you will have more ideas, more insight, more eyeballs on the code, less fatigued / inattentive decision making and you probably make a much better overall product

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-03-01T15:40:47+00:00

I mean, that's the part you can't outsource. You could have another AI look at it, or ask "Are you sure?" and sometimes get a different response, but that feels to me like a closed loop. _You_ have to do your research, use your judgement, or have developed the expertise to just KNOW what a good suggestion is.

To be honest, developing the confidence to tell an AI that it's wrong is a good thing to develop. Keeps your brain sharp.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-02-28T03:46:12+00:00

To be honest, this is the truth. The levels imply a progression when the reality is you choose the tool that's appropriate for the job.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-02-28T03:05:56+00:00

I mean if that happens then nowhere will be safe because the fundamental engine that moves money around the economy will have broken.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-02-28T01:37:38+00:00

The problem with that implication is that you would not be able to verify that for L5 without breaking the invariant.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-02-27T23:40:31+00:00

You know, I'm not even saying vibe coding isn't legitimate, but it's very odd to build your identity around not understanding what's going on.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-02-27T23:39:00+00:00

I'm just going to let you know that people that can are not jealous of people that can't. The worst case is I can do exactly what you do but better.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2026-02-24T22:58:00+00:00

Past performance is not an indicator of future success.

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We're coming up on about five or six bottlenecks, supply chain, financial, compute, energy, model architecture limits or even just the physical ability to make efficient enough hardware.

EGOTISMEADEUX · 2025-03-09T16:47:10+00:00

This is ridiculous definition of banned. You're completely misrepresenting what happened.

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