Programming

This is dumb. Right now, the LLM/agentic/generative circlejerk is in full swing, largely due to the VC and PE dipshits are throwing money at it, because they, as a class of “professionals”, fell for the snake oil pitch hook, line, and sinker.

There will be a correction. It will likely crash the economies of a LOT of countries - definitely the US, considering something like 30+% of our economy is apparently tied up in that house of cards. But as a competent engineer, I’m not too worried, because I’ll be charging top dollar to un-fuck people’s vibe-codebases after the crash.

Yet another article that depicts the demise of human software development as inevitable, based on the unrealistic speculation that AI generated code will become "just good enough".

A speculation based on wrong facts does not become truth if it is repeated a thousand times. It just becomes misinformation, based on the strategy that people tend to accept as a given what they are used to hear (also the reason why advertising is so repetitive, it preys on that familarity breeds irrational sympathy.) But no, the millionth picture of Stalin holding a kid does not mean he is a kind kid-loving person, it just means he is violently trying to control your mind.

I also see on lobste.rs a flood of articles that seem to be critical of AI use and at the end mention that the author of course uses GenAI for this or that, as it is claimed. This is the same misinformation strategy, which is depicting ai use in coding as inevitable.

Also be wary of the statements which claim "AI is just a tool" which makes "experienced developers more productive". That is just another attempt of trying to sell it, from another angle. At the same time it is sold to the C-suite as capable of replacing expensive people, and to juniors as capable of writing boring stuff and boilerplate. Or generating "demo code" which would then become software without any designed architecture. Clearly, ai tries to be everyones darling. What ai really should be good for remains elusive.

BTW advertising and misinformation should be banned from this community. It is not only boring but it tends to drown good content, and as such is harmful.