It may surprise you to learn that some people actually like programming, so yes I will. If AI tools are 20x faster then I guess I'll have to use them to get paid, but I'll be damned if I start letting a computer do the fun part for me on personal projects.
That said I'm not too worried. Vibe coding is currently slower due to how bad it is at writing software. In several years companies pouring billions into improving LLMs still haven't been able to make them not suck. That suggests to me that it's a fundamental limitation of the tech at present, and won't get better until another research breakthrough happens.
What if vibe coding becomes 20x faster than normal coding? Are you going to stay old school and write artisanal code?
It may surprise you to learn that some people actually like programming, so yes I will. If AI tools are 20x faster then I guess I'll have to use them to get paid, but I'll be damned if I start letting a computer do the fun part for me on personal projects.
That said I'm not too worried. Vibe coding is currently slower due to how bad it is at writing software. In several years companies pouring billions into improving LLMs still haven't been able to make them not suck. That suggests to me that it's a fundamental limitation of the tech at present, and won't get better until another research breakthrough happens.
We've had AI assisted coding for less than half a decade.
The rapidity of development is astonishing.
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Quantity was never an issue, quality is.
There's no silver bullet in software development.
Universal statements have a high burden of proof.
People used to claim we'd never fly. Shortly after we started, we reached the moon.
The entirety of the last 60 years of software may have been a low energy local optima.
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