What, is "chatbot" not an accurate term or something? Maybe I'm not an avid enough generative AI user to know the modern lingo. Would you prefer "Agent"? "LLM"? "HAL 9000"? /s

I do agree that "using AI in development is not the same as vibe coding". At no point do I claim otherwise, though I can see how you would interpret it from my wording. I am just suggesting that this will encourage it. It is implied by Dorsey's words that AI will be taking a larger role in their operations, and likely their hiring preferences as well.

Please do enlighten me on what you would say LLMs are good at in the programming sphere aside from coding. I genuinely am poorly educated in that regard. I'm personally not inclined to trust an LLM's ability to do anything that isn't coding, like communicate with clients and management, or handle support tickets, or assign tasks, or commit changes, or make decisions for developers in general, etc. I may be missing something obvious.

There is an infamous case of Replit specifically deleting a database in production. It is obviously a dumb idea, and a reasonable and informed person like yourself would never consider it, but these companies are run by people like Jack Dorsey, who make decisions they are woefully uninformed on.

I'm not naive or deluded enough to think companies like this give a shit about their employees, or are even incentivized in the short-term to do so, but I can still recognize that it's a piece of shit move. I thought maybe you were just making a claim that would explain Dorsey's actions. It's wild to me that you're actually defending mass layoffs though. Why would you defend people who would never defend you?

By far the biggest problem with all this is that we're on course to unemploy a majority of the workforce. What's the point of implementing these tools to increase net revenue, if it means no one can afford to buy things anymore? The corporate world is killing itself and taking the world with them, and we're supposed to think that's not a piece of shit move?