Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 5
The most surreal thing about AI coding shit taking on is the revelation that so many people who do this thing that I love, seem to have no care for the craft at all. Even people who I would have pointed at, years ago, as those who clearly care. And I know it has always been Just A Job for many people, but holy shit, do you even care a little bit?
We humans are not merely bad at it, we have people who have been doing the work with no desire to be good at it in the first place.
Show threadAda Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 5
If you don’t like programming, I invite you to do something else with your time instead of promoting the machine that lets you not do it. Some people actually like it, you jerks.
Show threadAntonio Patriarca
@pikhq I am a software engineer. Writing code is not one of my favourite part of the job. However, I do care about the software I am producing. And that is the most surprising part of the vibe coding trend for me. Many people do not seem interested in understanding how/why things work in a certain way or making things easier for them and their colleagues. But tech management never really showed to care about it in my work life and rarely rewarded this kind of behaviour. In fact, programmers who would just follows any of the crazy tech trends of the moment would often be the one making more money. They would use stupid metrics as the number of pull requests (which actually promote superficial understandings and a lack of quality). So maybe we are just seeing people following what is rewarded to make the most money. They decided they care more about profit than a product no one care about.
Mar 7 at 11:26amWeb