Stefano Marinelli13h ago

My week starts with a request: "I need a server to deploy to production, but the devs have no idea how to do it. They don't know how to use the terminal, they don’t know how to handle certificates, nothing. They need to be able to click a few buttons and deploy directly to production. They're Vibe Coding experts."

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Show threadSylvia

@stefano oh wow. I don’t even know where to start on that one!

Vibe coding experts is such a stupid term. A kid who can type in ai can call themselves that. Geesh. Just think of how much knowledge can get lost in just one generation. Baffling.

And then to run a server later on without even being able to use the terminal!

Years ago that was the first I learned as a Linux server admin and it’s still my default 😀

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Show threadStefano Marinelli12h ago
@sylvia It's the same phenomenon that led to the rise of "influencers", meaning people who influence large groups of others without having any particular knowledge or skills. The damage they cause and have caused is incalculable and, in some way, they have taught that you don’t need ability or competence to do things. You just need to know how to present them.
Show threadMathaetaes9h ago

@stefano here’s the thing: in today’s society, you DON’T actually need ability or competence to do things if you have enough competence to fake it and can generate sufficient hype.

Don’t hear what I’m not saying; society needs competent people and everything falls apart if we lose them. However, society doesn’t reward competence, especially compared to their incompetent but charismatic peers, and especially in today’s ideologically driven, post-facts world.

Musk knows jack about rockets. Altman knows jack about AI. They’re white men who know how to hype up investors, and that’s sufficient to be successful in today’s society.

Charlatans are nothing new, but we’ve somehow ended up in a society where the more smoke they blow, the more we reward them, with no checks on whether they’re actually generating any measurable net positive impact on society or humanity as a whole.