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  1. Comment on The dangers of vibe coding in ~tech

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    Nope. You're 100% on the money.

    Nope. You're 100% on the money.

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  2. Comment on The dangers of vibe coding in ~tech

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    Nope. If what AI gives me is bullshit code, I get nothing useful. I can write code all day. If AI somehow becomes a software engineer capable of reasoning about tradeoffs in architecture, then we...

    Nope. If what AI gives me is bullshit code, I get nothing useful. I can write code all day. If AI somehow becomes a software engineer capable of reasoning about tradeoffs in architecture, then we can talk. It's not doing that for the time being. (And that's the GP's point)

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  3. Comment on The dangers of vibe coding in ~tech

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    My usual retort to AI coding is this: writing code was never the hard part to begin with.

    My usual retort to AI coding is this: writing code was never the hard part to begin with.

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  4. Comment on What's the best counter argument to "Well, if I don't do it somebody else will" in ~talk

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    I lecture comp-sci. This is not a counter argument, but a situation I've been in where me not doing the thing is a threat:

    I lecture comp-sci. This is not a counter argument, but a situation I've been in where me not doing the thing is a threat:

    If I don't design course X for my department, somebody else [I know is incompetent] will.

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