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Comment by jumploops

2 days ago

I’ve found that experienced devs use agentic coding in a more “hands-on” way than beginners and pure vibe-coders.

Vibecoders are the best because they push the models in humorous and unexpected ways.

Junior devs are like “I automated the deploy process via an agent and this markdown file”

Seasoned devs will spend more time writing the prompt for a bug fix, or lazily paste the error and then make the 1-line change themselves.

The current crop of LLMs are more powerful than any of these use cases, and it’s exciting to see experienced devs start to figure that out (I’m not stanning Gas Town[0], but it’s a glimpse of the potential).

[0]https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

Partially related: I really dislike the vibe of Gas Town, both the post and the tool, I really hope this isn't what the future looks like. It just feels disappointing.