Smart developers reuse code. Geniuses build their own OS, design their own language, write their own compiler, and create their own game engine from scratch, not because they believe they can do it better than what already exists, but simply because they’re curious about how it all works.

That’s the difference between consumers and true engineers. Consumers focus on the product, while engineers want to understand what’s happening under the hood. AI users are not engineers, they are consumers of the products built by frontier model providers

AI will kill coding jobs because the bosses think it could, not because we think it couldn't. The opinions of coders DO NOT matter. The bosses have always hated the power we hold over them in code and would not hesitate to do ANYTHING to replace coders and they'll give it time for it to happen. The good thing about this entire event is we now fully know how bosses think/feel about coders and their true colors have been exposed. You as a coder are always going to be stabbed in the back no matter what. Many are also in AI psychosis mode and will be willing to kill the industry just to get rid of us. If they rehire it would not be us, they'll outsource the jobs to somewhere cheaper who don't have as much rights so they can fire them anytime as they like or abuse them. The whole intent is to commoditize and reduce dependency/risks of investing in human coders.

Thank you for your thoughts!

The only things AI killed for me are my sleep and my carpal tunnel.

Another solution to the proposed issue with the db bottleneck could be caching.

1) Software developers invented artificial intelligence and then the first job they tried to automate away was... software developer? WTF were they thinking.

2) Luckily you still need to know how to code to be able to use these ai coding tools. A designer or a product manager probably could not do the work they ask me to do on their own even with these tools available.

3) Even with these ai tools available, many companies are a complete mess when it comes to software development and even with these tools available they still don't know how to utilize them to increase productivity and decrease costs. At my company, they're using ai to decrease productivity and increase costs (which is mind boggling but true).

So my take is if you are technical, and you know how to build stuff, and you know how to learn and get your hands dirty, you will be able to out-compete people who have no skills or talents beyond sounding good in pointless zoom meetings, sending emails, and making powerpoint presentations.

I asked Gemini some help this week in a java program I'm doing for college. It hallucinated a lot. I finished, but there are still errors to treat. Imagine put something in production that you don't what there is inside. It is playing with the luck.

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sería genial escucharte respecto a las declaraciones de devs como este tipo "Boomer Ranting in the Woods"
A mi me generá mucha ambiguedad porque ese canal directamente habla de que la ia es una xxxxx y que además en un futuro cercano será tan cara como inaccesible

I love you uncle Stef. You post a lot, and you show us young kids that programming is cyclical. You've been doing this long enough and I thank you for always sharing that

at this moment i'm starting to feel like AI is breaching the frontier of even handling more abstract concepts like architecture and overall feel and look. It does things I never asked for simply because It can reason itself that it fits. Using AI more and more feels like the tool maybe isn't even the AI but rather me, turning the PC on, starting a new thread and telling AI to do something. If you have everything configured correctly(and i'm nowhere close to being able to do it and end up just delegating that whole process to.. you guessed it right - AI), technically you don't even need to have input in frontier models anymore, it can evaluate itself. The question becomes - what can AI not solve?

Basically, folks don't understand that experts in any major are good bc their expertise comes from their mind, thoughts and experience, not typing code in the case of SWE. This is how most white-collar workers think.

In other words... Vibe coding is the future!!

I agree with you, but there’s also a lot of hypocrisy coming from some web developers and senior engineers. I’ve spent the better part of three years applying for contract roles, and I constantly see this “smart developers don’t use AI” attitude, as if being a purist somehow makes you a better developer.
The reality is that AI is already part of the industry, and almost everyone is using it in some form. You can criticize how it’s used, especially when people rely on it without understanding the code, but pretending that avoiding AI altogether makes you a “real developer” feels like gatekeeping more than anything else.

Software developers no, Managers yes. And I have no idea what managers even can do as a job now that they get replaced by AI.

This is pure cope. I don't want it to be true either but thinking that AI won't be able to make architecture decisions and go back and forth with a project manager is so naive

Where do you live that you need to wear a sweater already? I always thought you were in the US. Maybe it's because I'm in California but I can't imagine it being cold enough to wear any type of sweater right now.

I agree that the part thats left is the architecture but why should those decisions be intrinsically harder for AI than writing the software itself?

Its actually easier for an AI agent to make architecture decisions if given the constraints. I dunno man i just think the career is over and we all need to pivot

AI will be a great enabler for open source software!