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> I've seen which developers became vibecoders. They were the people I'd have wished to get rid of. Trying to portray everyone who ever used a tool as the incompetent cohort is an exercis…

> Gitlab is looking to lay off people like him. All major tech companies are currently raiding to fire such employees. Gitlab has been strapped for cash and desperately seeking a buyer to cash out …

> It all still functions with text prediction Wilful ignorance can't be fixed. As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. I can point you to ReAct loop…

> Yeah they all want to fire the guys who can make sense of the mess the vibe coders are doing and try to stop it. You're grossly inflating the level of contribution from your average software…

> AI is a text autocomplete. This is tge best AI definition i heard and agree with 100% Thank you. To believe that first you would have to ignore tool calling, ReAct loops, and the whole agent feat…

> It's literally text autocomplete. You can dress it up however you want but it takes input text and outputs the most likely next sequence. Last year this level of ignorance and cluelessness w…

> Apple already does this and practically no one is outraged Apple ran a very successful propaganda campaign where they portray themselves as the protectors and enforcers of a secure environment wh…

> 'm willing to bet that this is a common viewpoint of people outside the tech sphere, they just want a device that "works", which for them is essentially just "I can use apps f…

> These are two unrelated problems. One is "payment systems use imperfect heuristics in their own operations to fulfil their regulatory obligations." No, they are not. You have people rel…

> The superhuman efforts that folks on HN make to find technical workarounds and solutions is wonderful to see, but we must realize that this is not a technical problem. It's a social and legi…

> Let them know. Write a letter to the CEO. I think you're naively presuming the issue is simple and easy to address with a letter. Regardless of your bank, payment systems such as Visa and Ma…

> You're ostracized from digital society. You're not even a citizen, much less a second class citizen. Before anyone downplays this concern as scaremongering ans slippery slope fallacy st…

> What an odd take. It is often titled "software craftsmanship". No, not really. This is exactly the opposite example of software craftsmanship. Software craftsmanship involves things lik…

> The difference is that now it is worthless Writing whole software projects in assembly has been worthless and pointless for a couple of decades now. Even the projects who can put together a solid…

> Ten years ago, I would have kowtowed to someone elite enough to build something like this. I'm afraid it's an elite skill in the sense that juggling is also an elite skill. It's im…

From the article: > Conversely, for problems where one’s initial reaction is to be impressed that an LLM has come up with a clever argument, it often turns out on closer inspection that there are p…

> 99% of these software startups are basic software that can be handled by a single dev; see Reddit apps and such. This sounds like specious reasoning, similar to the tired old interview question &…

> So far, I haven't used a single line of code generated by AI, even though I've seen thousands. Some of them worked to draw attention to a problem, but none solved it successfully. It wa…

> Last time I checked, the number of open issues in Claude Code repo has increased. The Claude Code repo features bug reports that are a mishmash of complains about prompt output, backend responses…

> I was not merely stating other bottlenecks. I'm saying they're more important bottlenecks. This is a pointless statement though. The fact that writing code is a bottleneck, and a critic…

> Bottleneck for what? More features? Code changes. Not necessarily features, but also bug fixes, plain old maintenance, and even refactoring to improve testability. With AI coding assistants, what…

> I think veteran engineers have always known that the real problems with velocity have always been more organizational than technical. I don't think this comment is fair or grounded. There ar…

> I mean, they're not even wrong, but the nakedly hypocritical attitude of people who, until a year ago, were the most antisocial and least collaborative members of any team they were on is st…

> Yes. I can try to vet the app to the best of your abilities and beyond that it's a tradeoff between how likely is it to cause harm and do the benefits outweigh these harms. No, you don'…

> Kick started what? If you decided to give an LLM access to your database, it's completely on you when you when it does something you don't want. You should've known better. You don…

> - a tool is activated with operator intent (at some point in the call-chain) This again is where the simplistic assumption breaks down. Just because you can claim that a person kick started somet…

> I’d like to rephrase this as: this is why you don’t give interns permissions to delete your prod database. Nowadays AI code assistants are designed to execute their tools in your personal termina…

> Then that is also on me for using a tool that I can't control. That's a core trait of LLMs. Even the AI companies developing frontier models felt the need to put together whole test sui…

> My team and I are firm that we are the ones accountable. LLMs are a tool like every other. Except it is definitely not. LLMs alone have highly non-deterministic even at a high-level, where they c…