I’m a fan of AI, I know that’s unpopular here but I think it’s a cool tool.

But you need to know what you are doing and how to program. I’ve said before we are going to see sooo much of this

The reality is we will always need engineers. Certainly not ready yet, but we probably won’t always need “programmers” - which is a shame because I do get a kick out of solving a really complex problem in a super elegant way

Sucked in!

Claude code can make something that works, but it’s kinda over engineered and really struggles to make an elegant solution that maximises code reuse - it’s the opposite of DRY.

I’m doing a personal project at the moment and used it for a few days, made good progress but it got to the point where it was just a spaghetti mess of jumbled code, and I deleted it and went back to implementing each component one at a time and then wiring them together manually.

My current workflow is basically never let them work on more than one file at a time, and build the app one component at a time, starting at the ground level and then working in, so for example:

Create base classes that things will extend, Then create an example data model class, iterate on that architecture A LOT until it’s really elegant.

Then Ive been getting it to write me a generator - not the actual code for models,

Then (level 3) we start with be UI.layer, so now we make a UI kit the app will use and reuse for different components

Then we make a UI component that will be used in a screen. I’m using flutter as an example so It would be a stateless component

We now write tests for the component

Now we do a screen, and I import each of the components.

It’s still very manual, but it’s getting better. You are still going to need a human cider, I think forever, but there are two big problems that aren’t being addressed because people are just putting their head in the sand and saying nah can’t do it, or the clown op in the post who thinks they can do it.

1. Because dogs be clownin, the public perception of programming as a career will be devalued “I’ll just make it myself!” Or like my rich engineer uncle said to me when I was doing websites professionally - a 13 year old can just make a website, why would I pay you so much to do it. THAT FUCKING SUCKS. But a similar attitude has existed from people “I’ll just hire Indians”. This is bullshit, but perception is important and it’s going to require you to justify yourself for a lot more work.

2. And this is the flip side good news. These skills you have developed - it’s is going to be SO MUCH FUCKING HARDER TO LEARN THEM. When you can just say “hey generate me an app that manages customers and follow ups” and something gets spat out, you aren’t going to investigate the grind required to work out basic shit. People will simply not get to the same level they are now.

That logic about how to scaffold and architect an app in a sensible way - USING AI TOOLS - is actually the new skillset. You need to know how to build the app, and then how to efficiently and effectively use the new tools to actually construct it. Then you need to be able to do code review for each change.

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I’ve been a professional full stack dev for 15 years and dabbled for years before that - I can absolutely code and know what I’m doing (and have used cursor and just deleted most of what it made for me when I let it run)

But my frontends have never looked better.

For Joe Rogan to give that look though something has to be pretty cooked.

Yeah, you know you can put CSS inline / in the header, and images can be base64 encoded and put in line as well.

Same with JavaScript. It’s probably a whole single page website with no ability to cache anything and can never be bigger than the context window

Not a lot of normies can hyperfocus enough to become billionaires

My wife shot herself in the eye with a confetti cap gun last night trying to see if it was loaded. She literally pointed it at her face and pulled the trigger.

Fair. How about we just start with the richest and work out way backwards until our bloodlust is satiated

We could build ourselves a round stadium and pit them against wild animals for family entertainment!

Maybe we just make it asset tested. Everyone with a net worth > $5m gets the guillotine

Why is nobody mentioning that by installing it and authenticating, there is sweet fuck all you can do to stop them tracking your movements and downloading your whole address book so they can see who you Associate with?

Taking the phone isn’t the problem if they are already in it.

Or… Keep the card in the car?

It’s what caused all those children to go missing

On that last bit. I agree with you, but people are getting paid to produce, and since they probably just know angular, they use angular everywhere.

What really grinds my gears - literally - is having to have two sets of sockets because America. It’s really gets annoying when you lose your 10mm socket and the other one isn’t quite right, but you can’t work out is 18/32s is close enough and then you bust a nut.

That’s why when I grab my popcorn at the cinema I loudly proclaim “no homo” before going down on Bruce, my coworker.

Wouldn’t want it to get awkward

Playing large scale battleship. They will erect the middle bit soon using some kind of strip so you can’t cheat.

It’s a real shame the eu is doing this. I’ve agreed with most of their policies recently regarding IT and phones.

I don’t agree with that stupid cookie shit though.

I just felt that there was a lone voice of reason trying for a better future but I guess we are on our own.