I’m not actually saying you should avoid AI tools. I used gippity to edit this fucking essay. It’s 2025, catch up you motherfucking luddites. But don’t expect AI generated code to be anywhere near perfect, and don’t expect furious re-prompting to be a replacement for understanding and writing software yourself.
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This brings up a good point that I haven’t seen expressed enough. I like doing code review of my peers, because it helps me learn and see alternative perspectives. But I don’t like doing it all day long. I also like creating code and solving problems myself. If I just have an LLM generate my code for me, I will spend my entire day doing code review, and that does not sound ideal to me
this is exactly how I felt using LLMs. Everyone and their mom hates doing code review. Everyone who loves coding ... well loves coding.
I'm kind of bummed completely by what's going on now. But what to do.
My 11 year old son vibe coded a browser game the other day without any prompting from me.
Whoa. It makes me think that AI might allow children to become producers earlier.
Well, the game wasn't any good and didn't have any assets (the characters were just shapes on the screen)... but the base of the functionality was there
What struck me was more that this kind of thing can be achieved during a simple goof off session now. It's not like my son is a hard working driven person... he was just goofing off with ChatGPT and ended up doing this
That scares me.
I guess it means that my kids can start working early.
I wish it was easy to code on mobile. I think I would be more along in my journey if I didn’t have to use a desktop all the time.
Back in the days, sometimes i used to code on a nokia n900 on my way back from school. Tbh it was the only thing that phone was good for, everything else was mostly an hack.
I loved that phone, the mobile phones with a keyboard from that time were the best.
Because there's an absolute bazinga of algorithms that's a waste of time to memorize because in your carreer you'll make run into needing 3.
For those 3 times there are LLMs which serve two functions:
I'm paid six figures to be the supervisor:
Those tasks, LLMs are NOWHERE CLOSE to being able to do.
This is interesting. Why do you think that a well tuned/instructed AI is worse at (for example) writing unit tests than humans though? When I write tests, I use structural analysis and perhaps some intuition, which is arguably seen as the most human trait in cognitive skills. If the premise that intuition is actually pattern recognition is true at all, then maybe it's just a matter of developing the right model?
To be clear, I'm not saying that I'd particularly like that outcome (one of the most pleasant interactions throughout my career has been with people that found bugs in my code, so I'd consider this a real loss socially), but I do think that this is actually a reasonable outcome, and probably soon, unless there is magic going on in
intuitionthat we don't understand and can't emulate (yet). But then, it's still only a matter of time until we do discover it?pro tip, get the AI to wrote the tests first
If when you code you need to stop an wait for the LLM, you are the LLM.