cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/52842255
Have been working my way through this author’s essays, thought this one was a unique observation.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/52842255
Have been working my way through this author’s essays, thought this one was a unique observation.
That’s why I suspect that a large number of “anti ai coding” people are cosplaying as developers but are not really in the industry, or are too junior to have an objective opinion about the tool. The things they complain about are a dead giveaway that they have no grip on the reality of software engineering.
Not saying you can’t be legitimately anti-AI as a developer. You can say “I won’t try it cause fuck that shit”, that’s entirely valid and kinda based. Or you can say “I tried it and it didn’t really work for me for whatever reason”, 100% valid. But if you repeat ultra-polarized nonsense that is completely departed from the realities of the trade then yeah i’m gonna mark you down as a cosplayer. Which is weird to me because if i was to cosplay something i’d cosplay as something cool like Batman or Goku. Not as some boring specialized salaryman.
Same could be said about AI mongers.
I’ve noticed that many recent apes submitted to projects I follow are from people who couldn’t write a “hello world” a month ago. Now, they are burning tokens on a few agents that scan public repos for reported bugs and submit patches. Of course, they don’t know what the code does. They are farming something, maybe reputation, maybe something else, but in no way are they coders.
Yeah, AI maximalists and degenerate vibe-coders are no smarter. It’s really two sides of the same manichean coin. It’s such a distinctly american way of seeing things and i can’t relate to any of it.