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I'm very bored of non-analogous comparisons. Either it comes from a position of dishonesty of lack of thought, both of which are unacceptable.

For me, I can't vibecode everything bc it won't make it past our QC, and the complexity of the work done means I have to babysit and often step in and either do it manually or correct bad assumptions/stuff that isn't sufficient for the task.

I don't know what kinds of work that isn't trivial CRUD work is or isn't so easily streamlined but I do know folks in more complex/more safety critical stuff, we're just having to fucking sit there and babysit. It's so isolating, and even though I spend more time Not Coding than before, team culture and really any feeling of having value, skill, or pride in my work is off the wayside because the retards in management think, since we can do some stuff more quickly now, our human brains will be fine with taking in easily 5x more context for significantly more complex work on shorter timelines.

And unfortunately that often also compounds with the current state of the world in general. It's another straw on the donkey.

It's hard but if you read it once for the vibes and then pay closer attention the next time you go through it's not too hard. Baudrillard is a Zizek-level philosopher in the sense that his own celebrity is kind of at the centre of most of his work (this doesn't mean it's simple, dumb or low-quality, it's pretty interesting, it's just also kinda sci-fi/fanciful as opposed to hardcore logic-chopping or idk complex historiography like some of his contemporaries)

Good enough IFF you are dealing with a cute web app or simple SAAS or something.

Software engineers feeling down should think about software designed to track medication administration, or validate their tax calculations, or to decide whether to flag you for a CIFAS marker, or whatever, and then imagine the generic "fuck it, that'll do" type vibecoder-level-engineer handling the code.

Any and all discussion that suggests the deprecation of human-held domain-specific, manually-able knowledge & skill, on the basis of LLM capacity, is propaganda.

I should probably stop advocating for systematically killing the ultra-wealthy huh

I think there should be honesty about what "Doing" some of these things means. Outsourcing is "doing" IFF you regard the end product as the sole meaningful or significant part of a given goal or process.

"Have your digital slave do it for you" is not really doing it if doing something and difficulty refers to your own action, and there's a gradient between that extreme and manually grinding rocks to make silicone wafers. I did not just refactor a bit of code, something did it for me. I cannot take ownership for something I didn't actually sodding do, no amount of semantic dishonesty changes this.

Ultimately I am not going to listen to someone who has """""done""""'" a hiphop cover of their history test if they put it into some software that automated 80+% of it from lyric to beat, and their decision-making amounts to 'fuck it that will do'. I'll absolutely listen to someone who has given it a real crack through means convenient and not, if it seems like they give a crap.

It still makes me laugh when i see "prompt engineering". I open articles posted on here that contain many diagrams and novel jargon, all for it to amount to using a fucking markdown file with some text in it.

The problem is my friend you're right but people who tend to browse this website are no longer engineers who would also understand this; it's mostly HR, Managerial staff, and jaded engineers who never enjoyed implementation details, and who are presently trying to convince everyone else implementation details are no longer of relevance.

Ah yes, the (please copy & paste this message into an LLM to get it to generate a novel response in these parentheses)

The community portion that unironically think AI is good enough now, are mostly managers and non/semi-technical people, and engineers who do not engage in critical or complex problems. HN has always been too much of the velocity-alignment-synergy class of professional talkers; it's just so much more obvious now that they feel emboldened in false confidence.

It's just cope. I'm so close to just never coming back to HN because the quality of thought has just gone through the floor. Anything whatsoever to hedge one's way to fellating a phallusless chatbot

Incredibly impressive how, the moment AI becomes the topic of conversation, trivial things such as speaking in relative terms become incredibly difficult for the more addled of the prompting users.