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2 days ago

> They use Claude to skip the typing, not the thinking. They're 10x faster than two years ago.

I'm not sure a 10x increase in typing speed makes you a 10x developer.

Was getting a job ever about your ability? I feel like when I got my current job, I actually was a significantly worse software developer than I used to be, but a much better bullshitter. And yes, nothing about the job is hard and estimates are at least 3-4x more than they need to be, and nobody gives a fuck.

The slop sickens me. If deep down there still is a part of you that enjoys problem solving and creativity, then you should always do it yourself. The technology still isn't even that great.

I wanted to write a simple midi chord controller for my phone to make music, emphasis on simple. AI can't do it and couldn't even help me on small code fragments, because it doesn't look at the problem through the lens of my artistic creativity.

Vibe coding creates weak men because you reject the deeper meaning behind what you are creating. Vibe coding creates weak men because they can't code.

What is the point of this article? What does it actually say, other than 'AI good, criticisms of AI bad'? What am I supposed to have learnt from reading this, other than that the author likes AI?

  • There is no point to the article. It's not even written by a human, and really calling it an article implies a level of intent that is not there. It's a random collection of words that were probabilistically likely to follow given an initial condition and a seed for variation.

  • TLDR is that a guy bought Mac Minis to replace Google's Cloud Transcribe with a local whisper.cpp model and that saved him thousands of dollars a month, and he is using Claude Code for DevOps, etc.