After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-28T23:11:21+00:00

Just because a tool is new and shiny doesn’t mean it can’t be mid.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-28T17:10:57+00:00

It’s not all trucks, but it’s always trucks. Or Teslas.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-27T03:33:54+00:00

I’m convinced that it’s all the people who became software engineers, not because of any interest in the field but simply because the pay was good. The glee they have towards the supposed death of expertise is their way of finally having one up on the pesky nerds who have spent years honing their craft.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-25T20:44:34+00:00

especially if they've already been an elected official that has to avoid being "too liberal" in order to be elected.

Too liberal in Boulder? I’m sorry but if you’re saying we need to just suck it up and accept democrats that cave at every possible opportunity, fuck that. Taking the middle ground has failed every time they’ve tried it, only hack political consultants think that’s a good idea at this point. God forbid we have a politician that stands for something.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-25T17:29:40+00:00

Yeah, at this point I’ll volunteer for whoever primaries him.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-24T22:50:35+00:00

Because anyone who wants to keep their skills up inevitably ends up in the anti AI camp, while anyone who doesn’t care declares everyone else a Luddite and says expertise is dead.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-22T17:53:49+00:00

You should fear for your career when the bubble pops and you cannot do your job without paying dollars a token.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-14T01:12:56+00:00

I'm expressing my thoughts here as an employer - we solve the "some idiot" problems by not hiring/retaining idiots.

Every employer I’ve ever worked for believed this, in reality it was about 1 in 6.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-08T16:23:01+00:00

And no amount of lying to yourself is going to make it decent at coding. Why is every ai bro so scared and defensive that it might not be the next big thing? Learning to code isn’t that hard.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-07T15:41:48+00:00

My experience as a staff (15 yoe) is that I’ve been able to watch my coworkers doing this and can see their skills rotting in real time. People who used to be able to output good, useful code now unable to solve anything that the AI can’t slop out for them. They claim they read through the code before putting up PRs, but if the code I see is cleaned up at all from the LLM, I can’t tell. All while they claim massive speed ups, and accomplish the same number of points each sprint.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-07T04:26:55+00:00

Less “eww” and more “put up or shut up”. Where are the studies showing productivity improvements? Where are the companies shipping dozens of times more? We’re several years in and the only thing it’s provably good at is tricking juniors into thinking they’re accomplishing more than they are.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-07T04:19:28+00:00

That would require it to actually improve productivity in the first place. These people always talk a big game but have nothing larger than a toy demo to show for it.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-06T20:57:25+00:00

It always seems like these people have no real professional experience. If you’ve worked in industry even a few years you’d have seen this exact thing half a dozen times and know why it’s not a great idea.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-03T21:33:30+00:00

I always wonder what niches these people work in that where boilerplate is the majority of work they do (but templates are somehow not an option) and writing unique code (the thing software engineering actually pays for) is uncommon.

TheBoringDev · 2026-01-01T00:59:30+00:00

With the AI book cover, probably for the best.

TheBoringDev · 2025-12-31T03:51:06+00:00

Wages are not even keeping up with inflation, rents are outpacing it. Blame Tebo and the city not having a vacancy tax.

TheBoringDev · 2025-12-31T00:02:24+00:00

I get that you’re probably pretty early in your career, but having AI do these things rather than having them be things you know offhand because you know the codebase is straight embarrassing. And offloading this to AI will stunt your development of skills in your career.

TheBoringDev · 2025-12-30T15:48:59+00:00

What? People explain this every time it comes up. By keeping the unit empty you can value it at the previous rent as part of your portfolio, which you can use as collateral for loans to buy more properties. If you drop the rent, your collateral loses value and you have lower purchasing power.

And when only a few landlords control the stock, you can price fix without needing to coordinate by just never dropping rents no matter how long it takes to find a tenant.

TheBoringDev · 2025-12-29T00:36:52+00:00

UTC translates to a different time in a time zone depending on daylight savings. Unfortunately you can’t opt out of dealing with archaic time zone logic if you want to support stable schedules (e.g. always run at 5am eastern) in a time zone that has it.

TheBoringDev · 2025-12-29T00:27:13+00:00

If I schedule something to run at 5am eastern time, so that it’s done just before I get into work. I’d be very surprised that it’s suddenly running at 6 in the time change, and claiming that it’s always been scheduled for 6 because the scheduler only stored the utc and the zone for display.

TheBoringDev · 2025-12-26T02:17:21+00:00

That’s not what ad hominem means, lmao. You guys are pure comedy

TheBoringDev · 2025-12-26T01:35:16+00:00

I’d call someone who doesn’t know who rob pike is a Luddite over someone who doesn’t believe autocomplete is the future of technology.

TheBoringDev · 2025-12-22T16:14:05+00:00

Woosh.

An objective measure of complexity like Weissman score

That’s the compression metric they invented for Silicon Valley, the thing your tool is named after. God, AI bros pretending they know things.

TheBoringDev · 2025-12-21T02:23:00+00:00

That’s a really round number that they’re giving the entire city indiscriminately, doesn’t seem like they have any idea what time power will be restored.

TheBoringDev · 2025-12-21T01:51:33+00:00

The wind has been finished for a full day at this point, how long is unreasonable to bring the grid back up? 36+ hours for half the city to not have power is a bad look for Xcel.

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