Even though this shit was apparent from day fucking 1, at least the Tech Billionaires were able to cause mass layoffs, destroy an entire generation of new programmers' careers, introduce an endless amount of tech debt and security vulnerabilities, all while grifting investors/businesses and making billions off of all of it.

Sad excuses for sacks of shit, all of them.

I mean.. At best it's a stack overflow/google replacement.

Imagine if we did "vibe city infrastructure". Just throw up a fucking suspension bridge and we'll hire some temps to come in later to find the bad welds and missing cables.

“No Duh,” say senior developers everywhere.

I'm so glad this was your first line in the post

The most immediately understandable example I heard of this was from a senior developer who pointed out that LLM generated code will build a different code block every time it has to do the same thing. So if that function fails, you have to look at multiple incarnations of the same function, rather than saying “oh, let’s fix that function in the library we built.”

it's slowing you down. The solution to that is to use it in even more places!

Wtf was up with that conclusion?

Glad someone paid a bunch of worthless McKinsey consultants what I could’ve told you myself

You mean relying blindly on a statistical prediction engine to attempt to produce sophisticated software without any understanding of the underlying principles or concepts doesn't magically replace years of actual study and real-world experience?

But trust me, bro, the singularity is imminent, LLMs are the future of human evolution, true AGI is nigh!

I can't wait for this idiotic "AI" bubble to burst.

Its great for stupid boobs like me, but only to get you going. It regurgitates old code, it cannot come up with new stuff. Lately there have been less Python errors, but again the stuff you can do is limited. At least for the free stuff that you can get without signing up.

It turns every prototyping exercise into a debugging exercise. Even talented coders often suck ass at debugging.

I am jack's complete lack of surprise.

I have been vibe coding a whole game in JavaScript to try it out. So far I have gotten a pretty ok game out of it. It's just a simple match three bubble pop type of thing so nothing crazy but I made a design and I am trying to implement it using mostly vibe coding.

That being said the code is awful. So many bad choices and spaghetti code. It also took longer than if I had written it myself.

So now I have a game that's kind of hard to modify haha. I may try to setup some unit tests and have it refactor using those.

The good news is: AI is a lot less impressive than it seemed at first.

The bad news is: so are a lot of jobs.

I'm not a programmer in any sense. Recently, I made a project where I used python and raspberry pi and had to train some small models on a KITTI data set. I used AI to write the broad structure of the code, but in the end, it took me a lot of time going through python documentation as well as the documentation of the specific tools/modules I used to actually get the code working. Would an experienced programmer get the same work done in an afternoon? Probably. But the code AI output still had a lot of flaws. Someone who knows more than me would probably input better prompts and better follow up requirements and probably get a better structure from the AI, but I doubt they'll get a complete code. In the end, even to use AI, you have to know what you're doing to use AI efficiently and you still have to polish the code into something that actually works.

Are you trying to tell me that the people wanting to sell me their universal panacea for all human endeavours were... lying...? Say it ain't so.

Oh wow. No shit. Anyway!

The biggest value I get from AI in this space is when I get handed a pile of spagehtti and ask for an initial overview.

No shit sherlock!

Almost like its a desperate bid to blow another stock/asset bubble to keep 'the economy' going, from C suite, who all knew the housing bubble was going to pop when this all started, and now is.

Funniest thing in the world to me is high and mid level execs and managers who believe their own internal and external marketing.

The smarter people in the room realize their propoganda is in fact propogands, and are rolling their eyes internally that their henchmen are so stupid as to be true believers.

It remains to be seen whether the advent of “agentic AIs,” designed to autonomously execute a series of tasks, will change the situation.

“Agentic AI is already reshaping the enterprise, and only those that move decisively — redesigning their architecture, teams, and ways of working — will unlock its full value,” the report reads.

"Devs are slower with and don't trust LLM based tools. Surely, letting these tools off the leash will somehow manifest their value instead of exacerbating their problems."

Absolute madness.

I always need to laugh when I read "Agentic AI"