[thearrow]

I love this essay, and it very closely mirrors my own feelings about the topic. Thanks for writing/sharing it.

I’m perpetually bamboozled by my fellow software engineering colleagues who insist on proudly shouting from the rooftops “Look at me, ma! I’m vibe coding!” as if it’s some badge of honor to see who can churn out the greatest quantities of shitcode the fastest and completely surrender any last scraps of their cognitive abilities to the best LLM provider of the current moment.

[6510]

If it makes you feel better, I'm still typing out things by hand that just work using notepad and ftp.

[bluefirebrand]

I suspect this is a bit of tongue in cheek about the nature of tools improving over time

The difference is that I absolutely could write code by hand in notepad and upload them to a server via ftp if I had to

I think it is a safe bet that people who learn to code with AI agents are not going to have the skills to code without them

[6510]

> I suspect this is a bit of tongue in cheek

no

[thearrow]

Absolutely hilarious! I bet you forego using calculators and do all of your arithmetic by hand, too. Such a clever analogy!

[6510]

Funny you mention that, I just wrote a bunch of arithmetic functions in js because floats cant be trusted. It was a tad more work than I expected but thats fine. Even I thought it was a tad silly but when I had to check if the results were correct and compared them in some big number calculators from the top of google it turned out not to match.

What do you think? 2/3 with 10 digits behind the dot in accuracy. Should that be 0.6666666666 or 0.6666666667 ? If I later add 1/3 to it my result is 1 which seems more correct?