How to make programming terrible for everyone https://jneen.ca/posts/2026-03-27-how-to-make-programming-terrible-for-everyone/
By @jneen
This is probably one of the best articles I've read on vibecoding vs traditional coding! And "Interpretation, Predictability, Discoverability" are all great ways to evaluate programming languages in general.
@cwebber @jneen Yet I’m forced to use it or I’ll lose my job. So yeah. ðŸ«
The article is absolutely amazing BTW. There are some situations at $job right now that are this close to approaching the quine situation. I do what I can to keep things sane but now I have to actively work on side projects to prevent skill atrophy.
@jneen Judging from my very limited experience with LLM-using collaborators, one defendable reason is the near-impossibility to have LLM lovers and LLM haters collaborate on a shared codebase. The workflows are too different in many respects. So if you have a majority of LLM lovers, it makes sense to force the minority to join them.
@khinsen we already have tools for collaboration, and they are already much better at it than LLMs.
i think you have started from a premise of "how can i justify forcing people to use LLMs" and worked backwards into a justification.
@khinsen and need i add, that when people are "forced" to use LLMs, the result is:
* the LLM doesn't work well
* the programmer just goes ahead and does the thing
* the programmer has to pass their work off as the LLM's in order to not be reprimanded
* ...but is still expected to maintain an "elevated velocity"
* management concludes the LLMs are working great
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