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David Gerardfuckin' that's three more vibe code disaster area cleanup guys i'm now in touch with
0 of whom can go on record of course
(one might post about it in a severely confidentiality-compliant way)
but yeah, cleaning up vibe code disasters is absolutely a growing thing
@DavidAnson @gary_bbgames @h_thoreson of course I have many concerns about copyright, the kind of society this leads towards, whether any of this is sustainable in a world where AI kills Stack Overflow. But as a tool the utility is incredible, and just based on how the world works given the power structures, these tools are not going away.
@DavidAnson @gary_bbgames @h_thoreson it is a long way from doing anything big autonomously. The way I like to describe it is it has a very small context window compared to a human. The human still needs to bring all the massive system and business context to the work. But it can do the human equivalent of "search SO for this problem and apply the best practice fix" much faster than I can.
@DavidAnson @gary_bbgames @h_thoreson expertise still matters! And it's not like we live in a binary world where code is either hand rolled or vibe coded.
Most of my prompts are to reduce toil, like "rewrite this function to use <type> instead of <ugly type>" or to replace search like "this function has <issue>, suggest some fixes." It is faster and less effort and I don't get bogged in minutiae. I hand edit after each prompt as needed.
I was a hard skeptic three months ago, not anymore.
@gary_bbgames @Trager @h_thoreson the enterprise contracts for OpenAI, Anthropic, etc all guarantee that the inputs won't be used to train the model, so your IP cannot leak
@h_thoreson software engineers will increasingly become systems builders. We're not going away but the job is going to change a lot.
With a few exceptions, it's going to be tough to make a career out of being an expert in the minutiae of $tech_stack. A good senior eng can use a coding agent to fluidly move between tech stacks they may not actually know very well.
n1k0> Michael Paul Smith uses 1:24 scale model cars and handmade buildings, placing them in front of real-world backdrops and photographing them using forced perspective. No Photoshop, no AI… just perfect angle.
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