[kypro]

I don't think HN is anti-AI anymore? Your perspective is the most popular perspective here.

When I was saying that we were getting agents to code junior-level stuff mid last year and that we'd probably be able to do similar with senior engineers soon, people were pushing back hard. Some people were still parroting the line they heard from others – that AI is just a stochastic parrot that just parrots stuff it's seen before.

Today? Yeah, basically everyone agrees that in the vast majority of cases you probably shouldn't be writing code by hand. I think the only nuance left is to what extent you need to understand what's been written. For now if you have a product with consumers you probably do need to understand what you're shipping. Vibe coding something with AI vs an experienced SWE using AI to write code they design is still a very different process, but increasingly we're moving towards a world where most code doesn't need to be understood. I know the way we're building now we're trying to minimise the need for that via harness engineering.