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Comment · 2 months ago
This take is foolish and will always be foolish. Coding was mever easy in ANY domain (not just low level stuff) and the fact that we built syntax highlighting, high-level languages, auto-conplete, static analysis, debuggers, etc., in order to make it easier is the proof.
Comment · 3 months ago
The point is that it is presumed that you must've gotten the info somewhere in order to back up your claims. If not this outdated website, where then?
Comment · 3 months ago
I believe vibe coding in general is a bad business strategy whether you use FOSS models or not because it means your product probably doesn't have any "secret sauce" (leaving code maintainability problems aside). By that I mean a carefully researched innovation that gives the edge to your product. Nevertheless, using FOSS models is clearly better for the reason you mentioned. I believe serious businesses will transition into using AI on-premise in a very restrictive manner (eg: AI only for tests and reviews policy, etc.). We'll once the dust is settled.
Comment · 3 months ago
This industry's complete outsourcing of its core business value on a third party proprietary subscription based tool, Claude, made by an unprofitable company, Anthropic, is very concerning. You are all lunatics, sorry.
Comment · 3 months ago
>could do bad things like ask for more money

Asking for a raise is a bad thing? Lol your average Silicon Valley sociopath

Comment · 4 months ago
eww
Comment · 4 months ago
Tech companies more and more delusional every time, thinking they are special and that their product is so critical for society, and possibly more complex than operating a particle accelerator. So, you basically have to be an outstanding genius in order to have the "honor" to work for them. Then you go in and it's just a glorified vibecoded spaghetti CRUD. Not surprised.
Comment · 4 months ago
Of course it has the MIT license, when the original was GPL. To hell with these Rust rewrites!
Comment · 4 months ago
Don't bother, they love AI slop here on HN, and will cope hard on the comments
Comment · 5 months ago
Beware: AI is a fanatical cult here on HN
Comment · 5 months ago
The industry should get down from its egocentric ivory tower and start hiring like other industries. You are not special, tech. Just have a sort of bar exam you have to take every x amount of years. The actual interview should just be an in-person behavioral one, with your future boss. Period. Don't get enough signal from that? Sorry, that's life, taking risks. Imagine trying to open a business without taking risks, and only kickstart it once you are a 100% sure it will work. No other industry is as delusional. Here is a reality pill: what you are asking, a 100% safe investment, is impossible, as any economist will tell you. "Campfire", give me a break, grown up adults with families don't have time for that Silicon Valley wankery, and you have no evidence that the results will be as good and unbiased as you think they'll be...thanks for bringing attention to the subject though, and in passsing also confirming how garbage the Google (and FAANG, in general) hiring process really is.

Just one more thing: the industry should really put a bit more weight on measuring people's potential and the concept of long-term growing and learning on the job. Just saying. You know, like every other industry on this planet.

Comment · 5 months ago
Crappy poetry if I've ever seen one
Comment · 5 months ago
One of the most full of bullshit phrases that nevertheless gets parroted all the time, specially by clueless AI bros. If that's the case, then why programmers invested so many years creating high-level langs, debuggers, syntax higlighting, intellisense, libraries, and a myriad of other tools in order to make programming easier? You guessed it: it's because programming is actually super hard and thus a real bottleneck, and will always be.
Comment · 6 months ago
>Claude Code appears to be enshittifying

AI tech bros when the bubble is blowing up lol. LLMs where always bad and unreliable for programming due to their un-deterministic nature. And regarding pricing policies, yeah, they have to make a profit somehow, it's just that the tech is too expensive vs the actual (almost non-existent) ROI it generates. Let's see if people are willing to pay when these guys aren't subsidized by the delusional VCs anymore...

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