Comment by dubeye
3 days ago
awesome, in 2025 I made a few apps for my small business that I have spent hours trawling the web looking for, and I have little coding skills.
Sometimes it feels like I'm living in a different world, reading the scepticism on here about AI.
I'm sure there enterprise cases where it doesn't make sense, but for the your everyday business owner it's amazing what can be done.
maybe it's a failure of imagination but I can't imagine a world where this doesn't impact enterprise in short order
With all due respect you are living in a different world. Not in a bad way, it’s just you haven’t experienced what maintenance on a large complicated code base is like.
The worst part of the new wave of vibe coders is their confidence.
Different worlds yes, but they both exist.
Sure, where one is ignorant of the other. That’s not a pro.
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Maybe the problem is large complicated codebases?
I think there will be a transition period.
No you're absolutely right. One of the things I'm starting to see and I wrote another Hacker News post about this is that more people are starting to come out talking about all the mistakes AI is making even as it gets better. Then You've got people like Karpathy talking about how drastic the landscape is shifting
I've been doing this for 25 years and I can tell you that the AI is a better coder than me, but I know how to use it. I reviewed the code that it puts out and it's better. I'm assuming the developers that are having a hard time with it are just not as experienced with it.
If you think your job is going to stay programmer, I just don't see it. I think you need to start providing value and using coding as just a means to do that, more so than coding being valuable in itself. It's just not as valuable anymore.
> you're absolutely right.