[pibaker]

This is like saying if you stop exercising just because you are driving everywhere then it is a you problem. On an individual level it may be useful advice, but on a societal level we see how it plays out — rising obesity rates and children shut in bedrooms with their screens. It turns out if you stop getting exercise from your daily routines, many people will just not get any exercise at all!

Of course you can make a conscious effort to keep using your brain while you vibe code. But if you have to consciously exercise your brain then it means the people, who are lazy on average, will just not do that and let their thinking deteriorate instead. We already see what happens if we let students "learn with AI." It turned out they would rather just let AI do their homework than become more informed about their course material. I don't see how software engineering will fair any better.

[stasomatic]

The thing is out of the bottle, can't stop it. I am neither pro or against, but it's here. Ducking uppercuts and rope-a-dope-ing is defeatist. Software engineering has been romanticized, it's not glamorous anymore it's not Halt & Catch Fire days. There is nothing new anymore, just a quicker way to CRUD. The next is elsewhere else.

Everything is happening quicker and we see it in real time.