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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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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 5h

My 11 year old son vibe coded a browser game the other day without any prompting from me.

69 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 5h

Whoa. It makes me think that AI might allow children to become producers earlier.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xIlmari 57m

If you can’t invert a binary tree, why should you earn six figures?

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:

glorified search engine which might even understand your predicament (you're NEVER the first person to encounter a problem) - "I have this data structure and need to do X. Is there an algorithm for that already?"
coding intern - "Okay, write me an A* solver for this graph."

I'm paid six figures to be the supervisor:

sanity check the intern by checking the code against a Wikipedia article
better yet, write fucking unit tests around what the AI spit out
integrate into the broader solution
know what tasks can be relegated to AI and which can't

Those tasks, LLMs are NOWHERE CLOSE to being able to do.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rblb 2h

If when you code you need to stop an wait for the LLM, you are the LLM.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 4h

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.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @rblb 2h

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.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Riberet 2h

I loved that phone, the mobile phones with a keyboard from that time were the best.