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by anonzzzies 128 days ago
Longer term this can happen but currently... I'm sure that even people who are not software people and do this for them alone, if they do this, will jump of a bridge after a few months when yet somehow something else (the vacation pics before 2014) just disappeared and AI comes with 'I found the bug! The migration blabhalbha. All your data gone. Question, Do you have a backup?' etc. And this potentially every change. Software devs deal with that all the time, but this is not going to work yet otherwise. We get tremendous value out of it for our company but we didn't drop our extreme rigid development process for some vibe coding; we vibe code but with a lot of guardrails which we built up over decades to deal with outsourcing companies (many of them far worse than any modern LLM tool) for our clients.

One of our top earners always was(is still) simple; companies to hire/fire cheap cans of devs, but cans of devs are crap quality (generally) so we help companies set up, based on their stack, guardrails preventing full out bloodshed. We always got a lot of flack from 'modern devs' because we take away the freedom; seems it was a good thing; llms + freedom is misery. Well, I guess it's also performance art of sorts.