What do I mean by some software devs are "ngmi"?

Posted by ghuntley on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @03:10AM
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Re:What do I mean by some software devs are "ngmi"? by somegenericdev on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @03:49AM (#46442504)

Hard disagree, it's literally backwards.

The devs who are "ngmi" are these professional sloppers who are increasingly dependent from their glorified chatbots.

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Re:What do I mean by some software devs are "ngmi"? by rvz on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @05:10AM (#46442892)

To anyone reading, ghuntley (former crypto-skeptic turned AI-booster) works at Amp Inc. (AI coding agent company)

So of course this is a pro-AI post directly in the interest of Amp and others who need mediocre developers and vibe coders to use their AI to do their job.

Secondly, the “developers” fully dependent on AI will reveal themselves to be unable to diagnose high impact problems, especially when an outage happens.

Vibe-coders and AI-dependent engineers are “ngmi”.

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Re:What do I mean by some software devs are "ngmi"? by ghuntley on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:38AM (#46466525)

no? i don’t work at Amp. that was a long time ago.

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Re:What do I mean by some software devs are "ngmi"? by lioeters on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:56PM (#46446521)

We'll see who's "not gonna make it" when the market is inevitably saturated with low-skilled slop engineers.

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Re:What do I mean by some software devs are "ngmi"? by ThrowawayR2 on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:53AM (#46466707)

Previously posted 9 months ago by the same user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612200

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