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The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android - bluesky-social/social-app

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I mean when I check my feed much of the Bluesky eng team seems to be posting about how great Claude is all the time so I have been background wondering how common vibecoding is in that ecosystem
Let's see if anyone on Bluesky / the ATmosphere can say more https://bsky.app/profile/dustyweb.bsky.social/post/3mg6qipl6a22o
Christine Lemmer-Webber (@dustyweb.bsky.social)

Curious if vibecoding / AI agent assisted dev is currently common in ATmosphere dev? The feelings about AI generated code are def different on here than on fedi, so... I see a CLAUDE.md in bluesky-social/social-app https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/blob/main/CLAUDE.md

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Example: https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3meomclcfss2w

> Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff.
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> In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

Why (@why.bsky.team)

Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

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I have this suspicion that the ATproto stack, at least the stuff from Bluesky, is heading towards "majority-vibecoded" but that's mostly just from seeing a lot of posts from the Bluesky eng team rather than me having spent much time in the codebase

Why is def hugely responsible for much of Bluesky/ATProto's design and if *he's* mostly letting Claude write 99% of his code, the rest of the eng team is likely to be heading in that direction too?

Also https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3meogr22l3k2d

> A year ago, I thought LLMs were kind of neat but not that useful. I saw the code autocomplete and thought, meh.
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>Last summer just flipped. I never ever thought I would see automated code generation like we see now.
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> I know there’s baggage but you need to know the coders are being real about this

Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com)

A year ago, I thought LLMs were kind of neat but not that useful. I saw the code autocomplete and thought, meh. Last summer just flipped. I never ever thought I would see automated code generation like we see now. I know there’s baggage but you need to know the coders are being real about this

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Samuel (@samuel.fm)

I'm thinking something like this

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Welp, there we go https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3mgaqaaisfs2e

> Oh interesting, people who don’t know how to build software are getting mad at my post about building software. Cute.
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> Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink.

Why (@why.bsky.team)

Oh interesting, people who don’t know how to build software are getting mad at my post about building software. Cute. Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink.

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@cwebber I'm really not a huge fan of how ready people seem to be to just completely relinquish their ability to code. It does not take long for your brain to wallpaper over entire skillsets.
@cwebber also, I can see this type of situation very, very easily spiraling into a classic "death by convenience."
How long until the primary engineers no longer understand the how their program is built or what motivated ostensibly insignificant decisions that eventually add up

@cwebber This is a big yikes for me: https://bsky.app/profile/blaine.bsky.social/post/3mgasb7ox6k2g

Yes. It's not quite that simple, but yes. My theories on hiring is that the growth is in a whole lot of "non-technical" roles.

The idea of the only technically proficient part of the company being a blackbox language statistics engine is, on some level, frightening to me in a general sense

Blaine (@blaine.bsky.social)

Yes. It's not quite that simple, but yes. My theories on hiring is that the growth is in a whole lot of "non-technical" roles.

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@brad @cwebber it's existentially frightening to me that a huge proportion of software we use will be/already is created like this
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It's cultish, the machine told us we shouldn't question it.
@cwebber