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AI ambivalence

Posted April 2, 2025 by Nolan Lawson in [10]Machine Learning, [11]NLP. [12]24
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I’ve avoided writing this post for a long time, partly because I try to avoid
controversial topics these days, and partly because I was waiting to make my
mind up about the current, all-consuming, conversation-dominating topic of
generative AI. But Steve Yegge’s [13]“Revenge of the junior developer” awakened
something in me, so let’s go for it.

I don’t come to AI from nowhere. Longtime readers may be surprised to learn
that I have a master’s in [14]computational linguistics, i.e. I studied this
kind of stuff 20-odd years ago. In fact, two of the authors of the famous [15]
“stochastic parrot” paper were folks I knew at the time – Emily Bender was one
of my professors, and Margaret Mitchell was my lab partner in one of our
toughest classes (sorry my Python sucked at the time, Meg).

That said, I got bored of working in AI after grad school, and quickly switched
to general coding. I just found that “feature engineering” (which is what we
called training models at the time) was not really my jam. I much preferred to
put on [16]some good coding tunes, crank up the IDE, and bust out code all day.
Plus, I had developed a dim view of natural-language processing technologies
largely informed by my background in (non-computational) linguistics as an
undergrad.

In linguistics, we were taught that the human mind is a wondrous thing, and
that Chomsky had conclusively shown that humans have a natural language
instinct. The job of the linguist is to uncover the hidden rules in the human
mind that govern things like syntax, semantics, and phonology (i.e. why the “s”
in “beds” is pronounced like a “z” unlike in “bets,” due to the voicing of the
final consonant).

Then when I switched to computational linguistics, suddenly the overriding
sensation I got was that everything was actually about number-crunching, and in
fact you could throw all your linguistics textbooks in the trash and just let
gobs of training data and statistics do the job for you. “Every time I fire a
linguist, the performance goes up,” as [17]a famous computational linguist
said.

I found this perspective belittling and insulting to the human mind, and more
importantly, it didn’t really seem to work. Natural-language processing
technology seemed stuck at the level of [18]support vector machines and [19]
conditional random fields, hardly better than the Markov models in your iPhone
2’s autocomplete. So I got bored and disillusioned and left the field of AI.

Boy, that AI thing sure came back with a vengeance, didn’t it?

Still skeptical

That said, while everybody else was either reacting with horror or delight at
the tidal wave of gen-AI hype, I maintained my skepticism. At the end of the
day, all of this technology was still just number-crunching – brute force
trying to approximate the hidden logic that Chomsky had discovered. I
acknowledged that there was some room for statistics – Peter Norvig’s essay
mentioning [20]the story of an Englishman ordering an “ale” and getting served
an “eel” due to [21]the Great Vowel Shift still sticks in my brain – but
overall I doubted that mere stats could ever approach anything close to human
intelligence.

Today, though, philosophical questions of what AI says about human cognition
seem beside the point – these things can get stuff done. Especially in the
field of coding (my cherished refuge from computational linguistics), AIs now
dominate: every IDE assumes I want AI autocomplete by default, and I actively
have to hunt around in the settings to turn it off.

And for several years, that’s what I’ve been doing: studiously avoiding
generative AI. Not just because I doubted how close to [22]“AGI” these things
actually were, but also because I just found them annoying. I’m a fast typist,
and I know JavaScript like the back of my hand, so the last thing I want is
some overeager junior coder grabbing my keyboard to mess with the flow of my
typing. Every inline-coding AI assistant I’ve tried made me want to gnash my
teeth together – suddenly instead of writing code, I’m being asked to
constantly read code (which as everyone knows, is less fun). And plus, the
suggestions were rarely good enough to justify the aggravation. So I abstained.

Later I read Baldur Bjarnason’s excellent book [23]The Intelligence Illusion,
and this further hardened me against generative AI. Why use a technology that
1) dumbs down the human using it, 2) generates hard-to-spot bugs, and 3)
doesn’t really make you much more productive anyway, when you consider the
extra time reading, reviewing, and correcting its output? So I put in my
earbuds and kept coding.

Meanwhile, as I was blissfully coding away like it was ~2020, I looked outside
my window and suddenly realized that the tidal wave was approaching. It was
2025, and I was (seemingly) the last developer on the planet not using gen-AI
in their regular workflow.

Opening up

I try to keep an open mind about things. If you’ve read this blog for a while,
you know that I’ve sometimes espoused opinions that I later completely
backtracked on – my post from 10 years ago about [24]progressive enhancement is
a good example, because I’ve almost completely swung over to the progressive
enhancement side of things since then. My more recent [25]“Why I’m skeptical of
rewriting JavaScript tools in ‘faster’ languages” also seems destined to age
like fine milk. Maybe I’m relieved I didn’t write a big bombastic takedown of
generative AI a few years ago, because hoo boy.

I started using Claude and Claude Code a bit in my regular workflow. I’ll skip
the suspense and just say that the tool is way more capable than I would ever
have expected. The way I can use it to interrogate a large codebase, or
generate unit tests, or even “refactor every callsite to use such-and-such
pattern” is utterly gobsmacking. It also nearly replaces StackOverflow, in the
sense of “it can give me answers that I’m highly skeptical of,” i.e. it’s not
that different from StackOverflow, but boy is it faster.

Here’s the main problem I’ve found with generative AI, and with “vibe coding”
in general: it completely sucks out the joy of software development for me.

Imagine you’re a Studio Ghibli artist. You’ve spent years perfecting your
craft, you love the feeling of the brush/pencil in your hand, and your life’s
joy is to make beautiful artwork to share with the world. And then someone
tells you gen-AI can [26]just spit out My Neighbor Totoro for you. Would you
feel grateful? Would you rush to drop your art supplies and jump head-first
into the role of AI babysitter?

This is how I feel using gen-AI: like a babysitter. It spits out reams of code,
I read through it and try to spot the bugs, and then we repeat. Although of
course, as [27]Cory Doctorow points out, the temptation is to not even try to
spot the bugs, and instead just let your eyes glaze over and let the machine do
the thinking for you – the [28]full dream of vibe coding.

I do believe that this is the end state of this kind of development: “giving
into the vibes,” not even trying to use your feeble primate brain to understand
the code that the AI is barfing out, and instead to let other barf-generating
“agents” evaluate its output for you. I’ll accept that maybe, maybe, if you
have the right orchestra of agents that you’re conducting, then maybe you can
cut down on the bugs, hallucinations, and repetitive boilerplate that gen-AI
seems prone to. But whatever you’re doing at that point, it’s not software
development, at least not the kind that I’ve known for the past ~20 years.

Conclusion

I don’t have a conclusion. Really, that’s my current state: ambivalence. I
acknowledge that these tools are incredibly powerful, I’ve even started
incorporating them into my work in certain limited ways (low-stakes code like
POCs and unit tests seem like an ideal use case), but I absolutely hate them. I
hate the way they’ve taken over the software industry, I hate how they make me
feel while I’m using them, and I hate the human-intelligence-insulting
postulation that a glorified Excel spreadsheet can do what I can but better.

In one of his podcasts, Ezra Klein said that he thinks the “message” of
generative AI (in [29]the McLuhan sense) is this: “You are derivative.” In
other words: all your creativity, all your “craft,” all of that intense
emotional spark inside of you that drives you to dance, to sing, to paint, to
write, or to code, can be replicated by the robot equivalent of [30]1,000
monkeys typing at 1,000 typewriters. Even if it’s true, it’s a pretty dim view
of humanity and a miserable message to keep pounding into your brain during 8
hours of daily software development.

So this is where I’ve landed: I’m using generative AI, probably just “dipping
my toes in” compared to what maximalists like Steve Yegge promote, but even
that little bit has made me feel less excited than defeated. I am defeated in
the sense that I can’t argue strongly against using these tools (they bust out
unit tests way faster than I can, and can I really say that I was ever
lovingly-crafting my unit tests?), and I’m defeated in the sense that I can no
longer confidently assert that brute-force statistics can never approach the
ineffable beauty of the human mind that Chomsky described. (If they can’t,
they’re sure doing a good imitation of it.)

I’m also defeated in the sense that this very blog post is just more food for
the AI god. Everything I’ve ever written on the internet (including here and on
GitHub) has been eagerly gobbled up into the giant AI [31]katamari and is being
used to happily undermine me and my fellow bloggers and programmers. (If you
ask Claude to generate a “blog post title in the style of Nolan Lawson,” it can
actually do a pretty decent job of mimicking my shtick.) The fact that I wrote
this entire post without the aid of generative AI is cold comfort – nobody
cares, and likely few have gotten to the end of this diatribe anyway other than
the robots.

So there’s my overwhelming feeling at the end of this post: ambivalence. I feel
besieged and horrified by what gen-AI has wrought on my industry, but I can no
longer keep my ears plugged while the tsunami roars outside. Maybe, like a lot
of other middle-aged professionals suddenly finding their careers upended at
the peak of their creative power, I will have to adapt or face replacement. Or
maybe my best bet is to continue to zig while others are zagging, and to try to
keep my coding skills sharp while everyone else is “vibe coding” a monstrosity
that I will have to debug when it crashes in production someday.

I honestly don’t know, and I find that terrifying. But there is some comfort in
the fact that I don’t think anyone else knows what’s going to happen either.

Related

24 responses to this post.

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    Posted by [32]Miguelito on [33]April 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM

    This is a profound essay just as an essay, but it makes a very important
    point about the future. Everyone is asking “what now”. You have answered “I
    am defeated”. That is one step on the path to an answer. The first response
    would seem to be to limit the usage of AI… That won’t work. Someone else
    will use it. Then limit it from creating art, reserve that for humans.
    That’s better but doesn’t say much about what humans should do. All through
    Western history, the society has been oriented around a civilization driven
    by caste based occupations. Our identity has come from our work. Before
    that, we identified as a hunter, or fisher or stone lapper,… What now?
    Ahhh, I think I may have the answer. You see, I’ve been studying this
    question for over 50 years… how humanity can adapt genetically and
    strategically to a post tribal ecology. I’m best at biology, but when
    studying survival I realized that a lot of the answer exists in philosophy,
    something crowded out by STEM. (Science is great for creating wealth and
    power, but not so good for providing understanding.) I have long looked for
    the answer and may have found a key … meme: In terms of biology, the
    purpose of an individual is to survive. That means many things including
    the survival of civilization, which human survival depends on.

    Now that may not seem like the solution, but it is another step on the way.
    That is biology converted to philosophy, a survival strategy. It is a step
    on the path to answering. That leaves the path open for finding answers in
    the future.

    [34]Reply

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    Posted by classyswiftly1d8dff3178 on [35]April 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM

        can I really say that I was ever lovingly-crafting my unit tests?

    More so than most, at least!

    [36]Reply

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    Posted by Theodore Brown on [37]April 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM

    Thank you for writing this! It’s pretty close to my own thinking and
    experience.

        The fact that I wrote this entire post without the aid of generative AI
        is cold comfort – nobody cares

    Maybe I’m in the minority, but I actually care a lot about this. Whenever I
    see people posting things that were spit out by an LLM, that’s when I don’t
    care. I don’t have the slightest interest in reading the “thoughts” of
    generative AI, since there isn’t really any creative thinking in it. It’s
    just a derivative of the prompt, training data, and model weights. I am
    very interested in reading original content that comes from the reasoning
    of a human mind. That’s what has the potential for novel ideas and
    innovations.

    [38]Reply

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    Posted by Manuel Jasso on [39]April 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM

    Great post, Nolan, I felt very connected and I am sure you’re representing
    a large number of developers. I also see myself as a skeptic, and I have
    another dimension to offer to your dissertation: I think “intelligence” is
    an overloaded term and we need to always use a qualifier. With this, there
    is evidence that “artificial intelligence” resembles “human intelligence”,
    but I think only time will tell how close they are or if they can be
    considered “the same”. As a skeptic, I don’t think we understand “human
    intelligence” really, and we get excited that “artificial intelligence” is
    sooooo close! And I will add that, from my perspective, “human
    intelligence” is only possible in “biological beings”, and in this area we
    really have no idea how to “make” one…

    [40]Reply

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        Posted by [41]Nolan Lawson on [42]April 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM

        Thanks, Manuel! I agree that the “intelligence illusion” is one of the
        things that muddies the debate. I do not think these tools approach
        human intelligence, but I’m also not sure it matters. A plane doesn’t
        flap its wings like a bird, but it still flies. But I do think there is
        an [43]“Eliza effect” here that is multiplying the hype and
        expectations.

        [44]Reply

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    Posted by adamtreineke on [45]April 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM

        I’m also defeated in the sense that this very blog post is just more
        food for the AI god.

    Patrick Mackenzie’s (patio11) take on this, paraphrased somewwhat because I
    don’t remember quite where he said it: “Writing today lets you modify the
    weights of all AI models going forward.”

    I love the implication that my 17 years of Reddit and Twitter posts are
    making the AI gods a little funnier, a little more sarcastic, and a bit
    more respectful, patient and thoughtful. (And bestow a tendency to write
    140 character sentences and misuse commas.)

    I do appreciate the lack of generative AI while authoring this. I think you
    either said once (or I saw it on a blog post) that writing was a way of
    really working through ideas. That really stuck with me and there is a
    respect and confidence that I have as a reader when I see that someone has
    wrestled with an idea versus just copy/pasted whatever their prompt decided
    was appropriate.

    Thanks Nolan!

    [46]Reply

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    Posted by Keen on [47]April 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM

    This well echoes my own background and experience and feelings about “AI”.
    Ambivalence is the right word. I’ve once tried a vibe coding tool and just
    felt overwhelmed with the idea of *maintaining* the monstrosity it spat out
    (presumably we’re going to see VibeOps and VibeSec and VibePhishing on
    their way). I do find llm’s useful in small portions, used sparingly and
    with only the context I explicitly allow it to see. But I shudder at the
    idea of just telling the computer to make a site that should handle logins
    and personal data and navigate the GDPR landscape and be maintainable
    across 10 years of javascript framework updates.

    [48]Reply

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    Posted by [49]Kerrick’s Wager: on the Future of Manual Programming -
    Kerrick Long's Blog on [50]April 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM

    […] cannot know whether Steve Yegge is right or wrong, and I do not know
    enough to make a prediction. If the future of productivity is agentic
    software […]

    [51]Reply

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    Posted by [52]Kerrick Long on [53]April 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM

        Maybe, like a lot of other middle-aged professionals suddenly finding
        their careers upended at the peak of their creative power, I will have
        to adapt or face replacement. Or maybe my best bet is to continue to
        zig while others are zagging, and to try to keep my coding skills sharp
        while everyone else is “vibe coding” a monstrosity that I will have to
        debug when it crashes in production someday.

        I honestly don’t know, and I find that terrifying. But there is some
        comfort in the fact that I don’t think anyone else knows what’s going
        to happen either.

    I don’t know either, but [54]I’m taking a “Pascal’s Wager” approach to it.
    I’m going to learn to use these tools so that if Yegge is right I’ll still
    have a job in software. But learning these new skills won’t dull my
    existing software repertoire, so if Yegge is wrong all I’ve lost are a few
    nights and weekends, and some cash fed into the token-generating machines.

    [55]Reply

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    Posted by [56]nevf on [57]April 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM

    I love writing software and have been doing it for a very long time. There
    is joy and immense satisfaction seeing what you type on the keyboard come
    to life on the big or small screen.

    In fact the older I get the more I enjoy the entire process. I’m also into
    Gym, Golf, Swimming etc. and these activities keep my body active and
    strong. It is however the practice of writing software and developing
    applications that keeps my brain incredibly healthy and provides a good
    balance to my physical pursuits.

    I’d be very surprised if AI wouldn’t help be be more productive and likely
    produce better code. However I don’t have the interest or wherewithal to
    get on board. Let me make my own mistakes, continue my journey learning new
    things, instead of wasting brain cells trying to work out what is wrong
    with AI generated code or how it does what it is supposed to do.

    I hark back to the days of Visual Basic, which opened a whole new world to
    people to write code and apps. We got so much crapware that finding the
    quality apps was a challenge.

    Look at the AI written articles, most of which are regurgitated random
    content with often contradictory information. A complete waste of time and
    ink. Here we go again!

    I have no doubt that the plethora of AI apps that apparently took only two
    days to write and are selling like hotcakes, fall into the same Visual
    Basic category of days gone by. Eventually these folks will learn that the
    life of software developer doesn’t come that easily. Or then again maybe
    I’m just too old and stuck in my ways to be able to drink the latest and
    greatest kool aid.

    BTW Nolan, great post.

    [58]Reply

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    Posted by bebraw on [59]April 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM

    I’ve been thinking about the same thing. It’s definitely a different field
    with the advent of the new AI based tools and it must be quite different to
    arrive to the field now than just a few years ago. I hope the development
    doesn’t erode deep thinking skills as you’ll need those to solve hard
    problems. All of the work cannot be outsourced to the current solutions.

    [60]Reply

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    Posted by [61]Stolzenhain on [62]April 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM

    Great article and great job at describing the actual vibes at hand. Your
    arguments shed light on other aspects like playful education.

    Programming feels less engaging, and is less likely to attract new talent
    with the latter not being welcomed by:

    “Look, Y is happening because of X, you can do it yourself, you have the
    tools at hand.”

    but rather

    “As an experienced programmer I have little insight myself as to why Y
    happens when prompted for X.”

    [63]Reply

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        Posted by [64]Nolan Lawson on [65]April 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM

        That’s a good point I hadn’t considered! Yes, it’s like the difference
        between Bob Ross empowering people to draw “happy little clouds” and
        having an AI just draw the art for you. The latter is likely to attract
        people for whom the art is just a stepping stone to something else
        (maybe more art! but probably not brushstrokes).

        [66]Reply

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    Posted by [67]Jakub Fiala on [68]April 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM

    THANK YOU for writing this article, you have pretty much summed up how I’ve
    been feeling throughout this strange period.

    One thought that helped me cope was about cooking. I know people who have
    more or less stopped cooking, because they live in a big city where a
    delivery service will take 20 min to bring you delicious fresh food that
    you couldn’t possibly have cooked yourself, and it will only cost about
    2-3x what the ingredients would. Yes, we have the technology – as Steve
    Yegge would say, the future is now. Plus, this way, you’ve saved lots of
    time you can now spend…

    … at this point a LLM would probably go on to say “being productive” or
    “relaxing” or “making art”. Those are all things I’d love to do! I can
    definitely afford to eat takeaway almost every day, or at least have the
    groceries delivered, so I asked myself – why do I still make 3 meals a day
    almost every day of the week?

    I think the answer is simply that I like it. Maybe I’m sticking to the “old
    ways”, maybe I’m wasting time, I’m definitely being very inefficient if you
    look at it mathematically. I just can’t help doing things I like, which
    include cooking, JavaScript, solving problems, reading and understanding,
    thinking… I like thinking! It’s the last thing I’m going to outsource.

    Affordable food delivery has existed for years, but even wealthy people
    still choose to cook at home. I think something similar might happen with
    this alleged “tsunami” of agents.

    [69]Reply

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    Posted by [70]dan on [71]April 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM

    Maybe this will bring some solace: [72]https://serce.me/posts/
    2025-31-03-there-is-no-vibe-engineering

    [73]Reply

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    Posted by 4zmite on [74]April 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM

    I recognized the feeling from a moment in my youth. Back then, I loved
    playing the game “UFO: Enemy Unknown.” The game involved building a global
    defense network to ward off an alien invasion. Building bases, researching
    new technologies, and buying weapons were all part of the strategy
    mechanics. At the same time, I was beginning to explore how software was
    built. Using a hex editor and a disassembler, I would pick apart things to
    see how they worked. This was another kind of game that I thoroughly
    enjoyed. One day, it hit me: the amount of money I had in the game must
    somehow be stored in the save files! I could use my hex editor to change
    it.

    Sure enough, my plan worked. I awarded myself a generous donation, and for
    a few hours, I was thrilled. I could buy all the cool stuff I couldn’t
    afford before and I had no problem fending off the pesky alien invasion.
    Aliens were no match for my hex editor.

    The next day, I stopped playing the game. It wasn’t fun anymore. It left me
    unsatisfied. Sure, I would win every time, but I didn’t enjoy it. Not only
    that, even playing without cheating lost its shine. Why bother playing when
    I knew there was an easier way to win?

    Excerpt from [75]https://4zm.org/2025/04/05/bitter-prediction.html

    [76]Reply

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    Posted by [77]Marc on [78]April 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM

    I was also very skeptical of AI and similarly surprised at how it can
    predict the code I want to write. True the code is often wrong but I can
    pick that up quickly. The real benefit is that it saves me hours of
    googling and trawling stack overflow (whose search, by the way, sucks
    badly). Tyoe your stack overflow question into chatgpt first and bam!

    [79]Reply

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    Posted by Mark S on [80]April 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM

    Please don’t give in. “You must use it or get left behind” is not real,
    it’s marketing. It’s like Nathan Fielder’s doink-it. You don’t need to buy
    a toy to prove you’re not a baby. And you don’t need to get locked into
    tools your boss will have to pay $200 a month for, because the company who
    made them is losing billions a year.

    They’ve ruined search results, they’re ruining the environment, they have
    no respect for human creativity, nor creators themselves. They don’t care
    about your license. They don’t care about your infra costs and will DoS you
    in a heartbeat, no matter what you put in robots.txt. GenAI companies want
    to extract value from us, repackage it and sell it. It’s disgusting.

    It’s not true that nobody cares that you didn’t use AI for this post. I
    care, and many other people care in the comments. Another human made an
    effort to create something? How wonderful! It’s very different from
    excretions of LLMs. And what if the models get so good we won’t be able to
    tell the difference? What if they get better than humans at this? Well,
    humans still play and watch chess. In fact, it’s more popular than ever.

    Keep being human. Please. Cheers

    [81]Reply

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        Posted by [82]Nolan Lawson on [83]April 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM

        Thanks for the kind words. I’ve never found the environmental argument
        against gen-AI very strong, mostly because I haven’t seen strong
        evidence that it’s worse for emissions than anything else in computing,
        or heck, [84]anything else in general (having a child seems to be the
        worst thing you can do by far).

        The idea that a small group of advocates can abstain from gen-AI and
        stop the momentum of the current boom also seems pretty unlikely to me
        at this point – this is the metaphor I gave of plugging my ears while a
        tidal wave threatens to hit my house. GitHub says [85]92% of developers
        are using AI coding tools; the effect on the industry seems pretty
        guaranteed at this point.

        That said, I respect your decision not to use a technology if you find
        it distasteful. I’m a vegetarian partly for ethical and environmental
        reasons, although I have no illusion that what I’m doing is anything
        but a drop in the bucket compared to the world’s soaring demand for
        meat. Same with why I prefer to ride my bike or bus rather than drive
        whenever possible. Sometimes you have to do things because you know
        they’re right, not because they’ll make a big difference. Gen-AI just
        hasn’t reached that level of urgency for me.

        [86]Reply

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    Posted by joshuapinter on [93]April 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM

        try to keep my coding skills sharp while everyone else is “vibe coding”
        a monstrosity that I will have to debug when it crashes in production
        someday.

    That’s honestly my hope and intention too. I have about 10 years left in my
    programming career and I hope there’s still value in what we bring to the
    table during this time and for the next decades to come after that.

    It can’t all just boil down to derivative work. Unless AI starts creating
    new libraries, languages and concepts, there’s always going to be a need
    for trend setters and trail blazers.

    Good luck. To all of us.

    [94]Reply

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    Posted by jhnnns on [95]May 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM

    Great read! It perfectly summarizes my feelings about coding and AI :)

    However, I recently changed my mind about AI when I discovered the joy of
    using agents for doing tedious refactoring work. For me, the fun of coding
    is not typing. What motivates me most is seeing when functions and data
    mesh perfectly like a cogwheel. And AI can help me a lot with that, as long
    as certain coding standards are met.

    In the end, it also boils down to the question if you just care about the
    output of the software or also about the code behind it. The former works
    for short-term, low-stakes projects, but I doubt that it’ll work for
    mission-critical code. AI can generate mission-critical code, but you need
    to read and understand it. And it often also requires fixing and improving.

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    Posted by ohay on [97]May 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM

    well said

    can sympathize

    ambivalence’s a perfectly appropriate response to a tidal wave’s
    inevitability (why this is manufactured ‘inevitability’ is another
    question~)

    some thoughts triggered by your post:

    reminds me of the web and how it felt like there was such an artificially
    produced ‘need’, and also a sense of inevitability and a sea change (i
    mean: who really needed to email someone across the country a picture?). it
    was a huge solution that created its own demand after the fact. ‘the ai’
    (the commercially available aspect) has that feel

    the other thing that came to mind for some reason: ai development’s
    probably quite…hampered by whatever philosophical criteria and conscious or
    unconscious decisions by the early planners underly all this. so whatever’s
    involved that anthropomorphicizes the goals and mechanisms will also,
    inevitably, cause some of these dynamics you describe. we (collectively)
    didn’t need to make such a close competitor

    probably not describing the thought too well – but good post, and thanks
    for sharing!

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