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damn, i've been thinking about the same recently. saas is dead, at least developed oriented saas for sure. the only things are rely on are my own self hosted git (not public to the web), and that's it. all other "developer oriented saas" has been replaced with a home made version with claude. probably not safe from hacking, but id rather take the risk of someone targeting ME specifically, than let all the "saas platforms" store all my data and get hacked every monday and friday

i noticed something similar yet different. because, sadly, most of what i read today is llm output (the chain of thoughts, or the summary at the end of a big chunk or work), i tend to "adopt" this style in my writing, hence, writing as an llm without using one. humans are an amazing creatures at copying stuff and adapting to our environment

I’d argue that most people also don’t understand code they read from their colleagues. Or if they do, then they don’t understand the entire context of the app.

You said LLM need human oversight and it’s true, but it does not imply you have to read the code.

I think we are going towards a place where code no longer makes sense, you just describe what you want in English, and the LLM just builds directly in machine code. You then build different verification tests to make sure the program is doing what it’s suppose to do.

Of course it will. But at the same time I don't see building falling left and right like CVEs in software. So don't tell me agents write bad code, because humans do as well. The only way to prevent this (or minimize), is to turn software engineering into real engineering.

I don't understand these types of comments. Aren't the CVEs epic today with human written code? What difference does it make then? You want no CVEs, make software engineering into a real gate-kept engineering professions with accountability chains, government regulations, formal education, etc.

Amen. If it works, its good enough.

How do you know if it's vibe coded or not? 60% of any app is third party dependencies that some random guy across the globe maintains, and the developer never even checked how the code is written.

Also, why vibe coded apps are prone to have viruses, and non vibe coded apps are virus free and have perfect security?

If it's open source, you can check the code, vibe coded or not (I doubt the majority does).

If it's a commercial app, the developer(s) probably care more about making money than writing the "perfectly secure" app, vibe coded or not.

No, it’s not. And that’s what scary with it. People try to cope with their slow obsolescence by saying that “AI needs skill”, while I churn out working code with basically a variation of “please implement this feature and make no mistakes”.

Koenigsegg for every founding member?

Form a coding perspective that’s the only thing that is required. Nobody except for coders care about code. And AI mostly solves the coding part.

And code that people write never breaks and accounts for all future cases.

I used to think that programming is an art; that you get paid for the code. Too bad it took me decades to realize how wrong I was. AI sucks, it sucks the soul from this profession. But in the end, the code it produces works, so who cares?

I switched to Kobo. Not that I’m a fan of Rakuten, but kobo so far remains open and modifiable should you want that

Amazon is a terrible company. Switched away from their Kindle and predatory business practices.

I bet on the concept of The Matrix

I’m coding, debugging, and fixing bugs fully with Claude code. Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes I feel like you: not sure what value do I bring, quietly waiting for the higher ups to understand they can do the same thing I do. But I don’t really have much of a choice. Coding by hand simply puts me way behind my peers.

Rabbit? Flu shot? Someone talk to me!

How to write with an LLM?

Don’t

They should probably focus on “project hydrastable infrastructure” instead

sorry for the cynicism, but what quality? have you ever worked in company that cared about quality more than productivity/gains/output/money? sure they exist, but they are very few

I dont understand how come there are still people who use the garbage website named X/Twitter.

There is this meme of a bell curve where the left side is some newbie trying to do something obvious, the right side is a "pro" trying to do the same obvious thing, and the middle is a someone trying to do cool/new/trendy stuff.

The left side us Ubuntu/Fedora. The right side is Arch. The middle is all these tech-fluencer-wanna-bes custom-made-ai-enhanced distros.

People keep giving examples like printed press, or whatever, but honestly the printed press did kill writing/drawing by hand. When was the last time you bought a hand written book or a hand painted picture?

Sure, they still exist, but they are priced and marketed towards a specific class of people, and not the mass. And with software it’s even harder as software was never targeted at the mass. Software was always a by product of a car, a tv, or your fridge. No ordinary folk ever said “I’m going to go a buy WinZip now”. They simply had a variant of WinZip available with whatever computer they bought. There is simply no category of people who are willing to pay for “high quality hand crafted software”, except for perhaps a few ideologically motivated people.

Software development “lost” because it was seen as “something that comes for free with a computer”, and not something that people have to actively buy, like they buy TVs, fridges, or paintings.

If i were 17, I'd try to distinguish who to take advice from, and would definitely learn that VCs have interest to spread a specific agenda in their message. Also, I would get drunk and have as much fun as could, as the misery of working under the treat of being replaced by AI, would simply kill any desire to live past 25.

Yeah, it's not like fully agree with the guy or the fact that he posted it, but it is kind of stupid to call this piece of writing "shameful" while trying to defend someone who bring andrew tate as a positive example to convey his message. At least be fair and label both as shameful.

Oh wow. Wasn’t aware about DHHs opinions. Not thank I cared too much, but it kind of shows you why you should never look up to these people.

Oh, so it's not only "JavaScript bad and npm bad". Apparently, if your language uses third party dependency registry, you are prone to malicious code, regardless if it's Javascript or not.

Use containers for development. And reduce the amount of third party deps you import into your projects. This is only going to get worse.

Wait until they drop the “that’s the smoking gun”