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As a long time hobby coder, like 25 years and I think I’m pretty good(?), this whole LLM /vibecoding thing has zapped my creativity the past year or so. I like the craft of making things. I used tools I enjoy working with and learn new ones all the time (never got on the JS/react train). Sometimes I have an entrepreneur bug and want to create a marketable solution, but I often just like to build. Im also the kind of…
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Nice, sounds like it saved you some time.
You "AI" enthusiasts always try to find a positive spin :) What if I had trusted the code? It was working after all. I'm guessing that if i asked for string manipulation code it would have done something worth posting on accidentally quadratic.
Then you would have been done five minutes earlier? I mean, this sort of reads like a parody of microoptimization.
As a long time hobby coder, like 25 years and I think I’m pretty good(?), this whole LLM /vibecoding thing has zapped my creativity the past year or so. I like the craft of making things. I used tools I enjoy working with and learn new ones all the time (never got on the JS/react train). Sometimes I have an entrepreneur bug and want to create a marketable solution, but I often just like to build. Im also the kind of…
I'm pragmatic and simply don't trust current LLM's to do much in my domain. All that tribal knowledge is kept under lock and key at studios, so good luck scraping the net to find more than the very basic samples of how to do something. I've spent well over a decade doing that myself; the advanced (and even a lot of intermediate) information is slim and mostly behind paywalls or books.
As a long time hobby coder, like 25 years and I think I’m pretty good(?), this whole LLM /vibecoding thing has zapped my creativity the past year or so. I like the craft of making things. I used tools I enjoy working with and learn new ones all the time (never got on the JS/react train). Sometimes I have an entrepreneur bug and want to create a marketable solution, but I often just like to build. Im also the kind of…
I'm the complete opposite. After being burnt out and feeling an almost physical repulsion to starting anything new, using AI has renewed my passion. I've almost finished a side project I started 4 weeks ago and it's been awesome. Used AI from the beginning for a Desktop app with a framework I'd never heard of before and the learning curve is almost non-existent. To be able to get the boring things done in minutes is…
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>No one says you have to code like those influencers. You are a software engineer, use AI like one, iteratively. This is my issue with all the AI naysayers at this point. It seems to all boil down to "haha, stupid noob can't code so he uses AI" in their minds. It's like they are incapable of understanding that there could simultaneously be a bunch of junior devs pushing greenfield YouTube demos of vibe coding, while…
> expert software engineers are legitimately seeing their productivity increase 10x It's funny you would say this, because we are really commenting on an article where a self-proclaimed "expert" has done that and the "10x" output is terrible.
I'm working in the field professionally since June 1998, and among other things, I was the tech lead on MyHammer.de, Germany's largest craftsman platform, and have built several other mid-scale online platforms over the decades.
How well I have done this, now that's for others to decide.
Quite objectively though, I do have some amount of experience — even a bad developer probably cannot help but pick up some learnings over so many years in relevant real-world projects.
However, and I think I stated this quite clearly, I am expressively not an expert in Python.
And yet, I could realize an actually working solution that solves an actual problem I had in a very real sense (and is nicely humming away for several weeks now).
And this is precisely where yes, I did experience a 10x productivity increase; it would have certainly taken me at least a week or two to realize the same solution myself.
As a long time hobby coder, like 25 years and I think I’m pretty good(?), this whole LLM /vibecoding thing has zapped my creativity the past year or so. I like the craft of making things. I used tools I enjoy working with and learn new ones all the time (never got on the JS/react train). Sometimes I have an entrepreneur bug and want to create a marketable solution, but I often just like to build. Im also the kind of…
I'm the complete opposite. After being burnt out and feeling an almost physical repulsion to starting anything new, using AI has renewed my passion. I've almost finished a side project I started 4 weeks ago and it's been awesome. Used AI from the beginning for a Desktop app with a framework I'd never heard of before and the learning curve is almost non-existent. To be able to get the boring things done in minutes is…
The premise might possibly be true, but as an actually seasoned Python developer, I've taken a look at one file: https://github.com/dx-tooling/platform-problem-monitoring-co... All of it smells of a (lousy) junior software engineer: from configuring root logger at the top, module level (which relies on module import caching not to be reapplied), over not using a stdlib config file parser and building one themselves,…
I disagree, I think it's absolutely astounding that they've gotten this good in such a short time, and I think we'll get better models in the near future. By the way, prompting models properly helps a lot for generating good code. They get lazy if you don't explicitly ask for well-written code (or put that in the system prompt). It also helps immensely to have two contexts, one that generates the code and one that re…
This is insane on so many levels.
Interesting post, but this perspective seems to be the main focus, like all the time. I find this statement to be completely wrong usage of AI: “This is especially noteworthy because I don’t actually know Python. Yes, with 25+ years of software development experience, I could probably write a few lines of working Python code if pressed — but I don’t truly know the language. I lack the muscle memory and intimate knowl…
That being said, using AI as a teacher can be a wonderful experience. For us seniors, but also and probably more importantly, for eager and non-lazy juniors.
I have one such junior on my team who currently speed-runs through the craft because he uses AI to explain EVERYTHING to him: What is this pattern? Why should I use it? What are the downsides? And so on.
Of course I also still tutor him, as this is a main part of my job, but the availability of an AI that knows so much and always has time for him and never gets tired etc is just fantastic.
As of 2025, it's no longer the case that older developers (like me at 57) are at a disadvantage just due to potentially lessened sheer brain power, as we had in our 20s. The reason is simple: We know what all the terminologies are, how to ask for things with proper and sufficient levels of detail and context, we know what the pitfalls and common error patterns are, and on and on, from decades of experience. Working w…
Would it be okay for you if I quote this on a revised version of the article (with proper attribution, of course)?
No, the article was just something about enjoying AI. This is hardly anything related to senior software developer skills.