Comment by sph
5 days ago
Jesus Christ. Imagine reading these comments even just a year ago.
Don’t know/care about coding with AI? You’re unhireable now. Grim.
5 days ago
Jesus Christ. Imagine reading these comments even just a year ago.
Don’t know/care about coding with AI? You’re unhireable now. Grim.
HN has a disproportionate quantity of 23yo founders trying to vibe-code the "Stripe for pickleball gyms" or whatever. Don't fret about it
It's not a skill. Seriously. It's pretty simple to get started, just open codex/claude, and give it a shot.
Everything is a skill, depending on what the company values. Early on I used to do work for temp agencies, and they'd care about the ability to use (even on a rudimentary level) Microsoft Word, Excel, and how fast you could type. I'm sure you wouldn't care about anything like that, but it's about the same level of complexity as interacting with codex/claude today.
Assume that the people falling over themselves to issue apocalyptic proclamations in response to such a question are... likely not representative. (And may not even be software engineers.)
But man, I'm sure glad I left FAANG when I did. All this hysterical squawking over AI sounds utterly insufferable. If Claude was forced upon me at my job I would have likely crashed out at some point.