The future of software development is software developers

Post by threethirtytwo » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 5:49 PM UTC

elktown wrote: post #397

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People are sharing it. Look at this entire thread. It’s so conflicted. We have half the thread saying it’s 5x and the other half saying they’re delusional and lack critical thinking. I think it’s obvious who lacks critical thinking. If half the thread is saying on the ground AI has changed things and the other half just labels everyone as crazy without investigation… guess which one didn’t do any critical thinking? L…

> I think it’s obvious who lacks critical thinking. My critical thinking is sharp enough to recognize that you're the recently banned ninetyninenine user [0]. Just as unbalanced and quarrelsome as before I can see. It's probably better to draw some conclusion from a ban and adjust, or just leave. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988923

Post by hansmayer » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 5:52 PM UTC

elktown wrote: post #344

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You are wrong. People like yourself will likely be smart enough to stay well employed into the future. It's the folks who are arguing with you trying to say that AI is useless who will quickly lose their jobs. And they'll be all shocked Pikachu face when they get a pink slip while their role gets reassigned to an AI agent

> It's the folks who are arguing with you trying to say that AI is useless who will quickly lose their jobs. Why is it that in every hype there are always the guys like you that want to punish the non-believers? It's not enough to be potentially proven correct, your anger requires the demise of the heretics. It was the same story for cryptocurrencies.

Post by threethirtytwo » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 5:52 PM UTC

elktown wrote: post #395

threethirtytwo wrote: post #385

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Bro no one said 5x now or your fired that’s your own imagination adding flavor to it. It’s obvious to anyone if your output is 5x less than everyone else you will eventually be let go. There’s no paradigm shift where the boss suddenly announced that. But the underlying unsaid expectation is obvious given what everyone is doing. What happened was this, a couple new hires and some current employees started were using A…

> they were deploying code outside their areas of expertise doing dev ops, infra, backend and frontend. > The boss can now throw a frontend job to a backend developer and now expect completion in a day or less. Right. So essentially vibe coding in unknown domains, sounds great. Truly professional.

Post by bdangubic » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 5:55 PM UTC

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> These are the same people that create applications in MS Excel. Ones that want their application to work? :) the last piece of software you should be knocking is MS Excel, in my 30+ year career the one common thread just about everywhere I worked (or contracted at) has used Excel to run some amazing sh*t

Everywhere I've worked as a software engineer the past 30 years I've seen Excel spreadsheets but rarely anything amazing, maybe once back in the 1990's at one place by an Excel guru but those are rare. 00% of the time Excel is used to make essentially table layouts of data maybe with some simple cell calculations.

Post by threethirtytwo » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 5:58 PM UTC

elktown wrote: post #395

threethirtytwo wrote: post #385

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Bro no one said 5x now or your fired that’s your own imagination adding flavor to it. It’s obvious to anyone if your output is 5x less than everyone else you will eventually be let go. There’s no paradigm shift where the boss suddenly announced that. But the underlying unsaid expectation is obvious given what everyone is doing. What happened was this, a couple new hires and some current employees started were using A…

> they were deploying code outside their areas of expertise doing dev ops, infra, backend and frontend. > The boss can now throw a frontend job to a backend developer and now expect completion in a day or less. Right. So essentially vibe coding in unknown domains, sounds great. Truly professional.