Two Anecdotes in a Trench Coat
LLMs are great at pattern detection. Use them long enough, and you get good at it too. Smoking guns, being absolutely right, it's not X but Y. They tend to be cute at first, but then these AI-isms become bad jokes after only a few conversations.
Now that I can practically recite all of the dumb shit robots say, I'm starting to see it more and more from humans. That's not to say I see humans using AI-isms, I'm starting to see new patterns emerge. Maybe they've been there the whole time and I'm only now starting to notice.
The one I particularly dislike is taking two disparate things, and attempting to use them as inference towards your biased opinion on things.
My favorite one thus far cites that every company that has embraced vibe coding now has a 30 second page load or is completely unusable. This was the math behind an eye roll "programming is dead" quip.
I guess if you just got here, this makes sense to you. Fun fact, there's always been slow websites. Like, forever. I've been both the contributing factor to slow websites as well as the savior that fixed them for nearly three decades. Most of which didn't include vibe coding.
Fine, the robots still go off the rails, and need a lot of guard rails. But to jump to the conclusion that if something is slopped together by an LLM it's complete shit is... it's ~fucking dumb~ short sighted at BEST.
We're all biased in one way or another. Clearly I'm in the camp that these new technologies are good, and are going to elevate us all. I also find that those sort of opinions are clearly made by people that aren't working with the tools. If they are, they are trying to find the holes to poke, rather than figuring out how we can work past them.
I've been operating more and more in an end state with agentic coding. Where can I produce results? How can I remove myself from the things I find to be a waste of time? How do I balance it all while maintaining code and product quality.
There are people moving faster than me. They trust the robots more than I do. I'm still working on that trust, as each time I take my hands off the wheel, I end up with a mess to undo. But I keep experimenting. I keep improving my workflows.
If I were to disguise some generalizations as truths, it would sound something like this:
Every person that digs their heels against AI is helping to dig the moat around the people who are embracing the change.
Deskilling is real, which side of the moat are you going to be on?
:wq
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