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by devs you mean those two guys on twitter who brag about vibe coding with 100 agents running simultaneously. While Claude Code still can't display images. I wonder what they are doing with those 100 agents
They'll hire one guy to vibe code like ai.com thing
I was literally creating a 2nd account on github today for this purpose.
Yes, my point is that it was possible to build it before AI and in much less effort than people imagine. People in college build an interpreter in the less than couple weeks anyway and that probably has more utility.
Consider two scenarios:
1) I try to build an interpreter. I go and read some books, understand the process, build it in 2 weeks. Results: I have a toy interpreter. I understand said toy interpreter. I learnt how to do it, Learnt ideas in the field, applied my knowledge practically.
2) I try to build an interpreter. I go and ask claude to do it. It spits out something which works: Result: I have black box interpreter. I dont understand said interpreter. I didnt build any skills in building it. Took me less than an hour.
Toy interpreter is useless in both scenarios but Scenario one pay for the 2 week effort, while Scenario 2 is a vanity project.
Grindr is next Google. Sometimes when I need to search something, I dont even open google or chatGPT, i just type into the DMs of someone and they refuse to answer.
This is actually a genius level move from Grindr. Anthropic/OpenAI can only dream of the stable userbase like this. Few years ago I even suggested they should add actual brainstorming and prototyping features like Framer for bros to discuss their business ideas. Dopamine rush of grindr notification into my AI chats would literally be insane levels of productivity.
This is a cope. Managers are not magicians who will finally understand who is good and who is just vibe coding demos. In fact now its gonna become even harder to understand differences for the managers. In fact its more likely that the managers are at the same risk because without a clique of software engineers, they would have nothing to manage.
Just a regular senior SDE at one of the Mag7. I can tell you everyone at these companies is replaceable within a day. Even within an hour. Even the head of depts have no power above them, they can be fired on short notice.
I get this comment everytime I say this but there are levels to this. What you think is bad today could be considered artisan when things become worse than today.
100% disagree. CNC is a precision machine while AI is the literal opposite of precision.
I am becoming more and more convinced that AI cant be used to make something better than what could have built before AI.
You never needed 1000s of engineers to build software anyway, Winamp & VLC were build by less than four people. You only needed 1000s of people because the executive vision is always to add more useless junk into each product. And now with AI that might be even harder to avoid. This would mean there would be 1000s of do-everything websites in the future in the best case, or billions of doing one-thing terribly apps in the worst case.
percentage of good, well planned, consistent and coherent software is going to approach zero in both cases.
And the initial gut reaction is to resist by organizing labor.
Yeah like tech workers have similar rights to union workers. We literally have 0 power compared to any previous group of workers. Organizing of labour cant even happen in tech as tech has large percentage of immigrant labour who have even less rights than citizens.
Also there is no shared pain like union workers had, we all have been given different incentives, working under different corporations so without shared pain its impossible to organize. AI is the first shared pain we had, and even this caused no resistance from tech workers. Resistance has come from the users, which is the first good sign. Consumers have shown more ethics than workers and we have to applaud that. Any resistance to buying chatbot subscriptions has to be celebrated.
It may not be 100x as was told to me but it's definitely putting the strain on the entire org.
But thats not even the top 5 strain on github, their main issue is the forced adoption of Azure. I can guarantee you that about 99% of repos are still cold, as in very few pulls and no pushes and that hasn't changed in 3 months. Storage itself doesn't add that much strain on the system if the data is accessed rarely.
No its not. 121M repos added on github in 2025, and overall they have 630 million now. There is probably at best 2x increased in output (mostly trash output), but no where near 100x
https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...
Lmao not even close. Github themselves have released the numbers and it was 121M new repos with 2025 ending up with 630M
https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...
We can all chill for couple weeks, Github guys take your time. Infact, don't even worry about it.
Wow an issue going on for 6 months without any input from Anthropic again, not even surprised
If you look at his github you can see he is in the first week of giving into the vibes. The first week always leads to the person making absurd claims about productivity.
By recently, you mean since 2007
Exactly I have seen these know it all comments on my own repos and also tldraw's issues when adding issues. They add nothing to the conversation, they just paste the conversation into some coding tool and spit out the info.
PMs can always keep their jobs because they appear to be working and they keep contact with the execs directly. They have taken a bigger and bigger part of the tech pie over the years and soon they finally take it all.
Most of the hiring is happening in heavy AI coding companies, a lot of mid sized companies have freezed hiring or they are also only hiring people who claim to use AI to be 10x devs. For non-lying devs, only big companies seem to be hiring and their process hasnt changed much. you are still expect to solve leetcode and then also sit through system design.
Only cutting of the furniture is automated. Still designed and assembled by humans. There is no machine which spits out a sofa.
I am happy someone else is also talking about addictive nature of vibe coding and its gambling-esque rewards. Would we see agentic programmers begging for tokens on kickstarter in future? That would be funny.
Why do you think author used ChatGPT to write this? It has human imperfections and except this 'The "just one more prompt" trap' I didnt think it was written by a prompt
1) Is this for founders, because employees surely cant do this. With new AI surveillance tech, companies are looking over our shoulders even more than before.
In couple of minutes? My claude code takes like 5 mins just to wake up and write a simple plan.
When your title is software engineer, good luck convincing the layoff machine about your taste, design, intuition, sociability, judgement, coaching, inspiring, explaining, or empathy in the context of using technology to solve human problems.
Astroturfing on the internet is Anthropic's main business now.
C compiler it wrote doesnt even compile. Waste of $20k