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I’m AI neutral but the writing style here is pretty dismissive, and - to match the tone of the article - annoying as fuck. Most completely reasonable objections to LLMs were totally dismissed.
To quote an excellent article from last week: > The AI has suggested a solution, but the added code is arguably useless or wrong. There is a huge decision space to consider, but the AI tool has picked one set of decisions, without any rationale for this decision. > [...] > Programming is about lots of decisions, large and small. Architecture decisions. Data validation decisions. Button color decisions. > Some decisio…
The idea that you can't specify the load bearing pillars of your structure to the AI, or that it couldn't figure them out by specifying the right requirements/constraints, will not age well.
I think in a lot of cases the skeptics haven't really witnessed how good LLMs can be for a subset of software engineering tasks. I find for mid-complexity code they are far, far better than I am at coding. Even though I often tweak their solutions, they outweigh that by often identifying APIs and even whole libraries to call where I fully would have set about implementing it myself - either out of ignorance or an ass…
Developers thinking AI is a fad is like a left fielder thinking about if they should stick their hand out to catch the ball or not. You can’t think about this.
Anyway, I find myself in stasis trying to actually see what to build given the reality of the power of this api. The South Park episode of “The Simpsons did it” is an apt episode. We are very much at the point where the continuous question will be “Well the LLM can do it”.
Seeing everything these days being about vibe coding, I feel a little old with my VIM setup and my LSP servers who I already thought were a nice productivity increase. The problems I have with the stuff relating to MCP is that the tech around it is developing so fast that it's hard for outsiders to catch up with what the best working setup is, for example. What would you do, for example, if you want to selfhost this?…
I think most people are using off the shelf paid solutions like cursor, windsurf, warp terminal, Claude code.
I'd love to get a set up with a locally hosted full version of deepseek.
This isn't about the post itself, but can you please put the author's name at the top? It's written in first person and we have no idea who's talking until the end of the post.
Can someone comment on the cost of running agentic models? Not for a company but for an individual. I tried "vibe coding" a personal project I was struggling with and left even more frustrated because I kept running into token rate limits with Claude (used inside of Zed if it matters). Did I pick the wrong model, the wrong editor, or do I just need to not be so tight with my money?
One thing that I find truly amazing is just the simple fact that you can now be fuzzy with the input you give a computer, and get something meaningful in return. Like, as someone who grew up learning to code in the 90s it always seemed like science fiction that we'd get to a point where you could give a computer some vague human level instructions and get it more or less do what you want.
The big change with LLMs seems to be that everyone now has an opinion on what programming/AI is and can do. I remember people behaving like that around stocks not that long ago…