Fuck AI

Yeah an LLM is like a fancy code completion tool. It's useful for repetitive fast things you can't be bothered with. Or looking at final code to see if there's anything obvious or smarter way overlooked. That's about it. It will hallucinate and fuck up about 1/5 times and contradict itself constantly. It'll also argue a lot about non-existent functions working and stuff.

This can't ever be improved because it's algorithmic at the core. We'll only ever be able to apply guardrail on guardrail on guardrail and get messy creative with the already established limit.

Not sure it will be worse then my coding specifically, but any dev who knows Edgar they're doing really shouldn't be relying on AI and will get frustrated a lot when vibe coding. It's only that I sort of know what I'm doing that I'm finding out that the LLMs take my logs and my context as explanation and just start 'patching' by writing conversion functions out the wazoo. At some point you'll have 16 conversion layers and yeah it works but it's a serious design flaw.

I agree that the code AI produces is incoherent garbage, but the problem is that 95% of human written code in circulation is also incoherent garbage with zero structure or documentation. Unless you are writing very important software the bar is hilariously low. I personally think the solution here is to treat software with more respect in general, but that would require companies thinking beyond the next quarter, and to end the rats' race which causes employees to not be incentivized to care about efficient and we'll structured software.

It depends on the situation.

If the situation is you are playing in a very well trodden area and you can be flexible in accepting the LLM product even as it didn't fit what you would have had in mind, it can likely do "ok". "Make me a super Mario Brothers style game". The output will not be what you probably wouild have wanted, and further it will be a soul crushingly pointless "game" compared to just playing an existing platformer, but it will crank out something vaguely like you would have guessed. The sort of projects I have generally avoided because they usually reinvent the wheel for pointless reasons and it's very unrewarding for me. However fairly common in big businesses to make stupid internal applications like this. Very depressingly, I expect steam to be flooded with AI slop just like it has been flooded with stock asset slop.

If you are making something more novel and/or cannot tolerate deviations from a very specific vision, well LLM goes more pointless.

Yeah, that's cope. You can use it poorly, sure. Vibing will absolutely bite you in the ass.

But you can also feed it smaller, manageable chunks that you know are possible and straightforward, and then you can review those results and tweak and revise as needed. This is not vibe coding, but it is using AI in a way that will make you faster and more efficient.

For 95% of applications, it's appropriate and efficient to use some level of AI. Maybe things like the Linux kernel don't need it, but those applications are few and far between.

I'm not worried about being replaced. I've seen what it can do, for better and worse, and someone who knows what they're doing needs to be in the loop. I don't see that going anywhere anytime soon.

Really what I see happening is that projects that would take two months now take six weeks, but also end up more polished and feature complete than they would have otherwise. Maybe with that kind of efficiency gain you can cut a few people, but not that many. And most places can just use the extra 20% productivity.

If you're doing it right and not vibing, it's not the 2000% gain the techbros promise, but it is some gain.

It reads like AI slop.

Edit; maybe.