Torvalds was right when he said that coding AI cannot replace competent devs, or you waste more time fixing shit that AI broke than actually doing something productive. The more complex a platform gets, the more relevant is the understanding of the structure to be able to guide the AI.

All this "we replace junior devs with LLMs" it the equivalent to castrating yourself because you can get testosterone injections, with the same result - lack of competent devs in the future.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 31 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I'm a game design student. One of my classmates is vibe coding literally everything. Entire monitor dedicated to just asking AI for stuff. Every day it is "I made this thing!" Followed by hours of them blindly fucking with it to try and get the AI to fix it. They're learning almost nothing but occasionally something cool looking pops out and they start bragging about it. They're going to be so fucked the moment anything is bigger than a single system misbehaving in a contained way they won't have even learned the words necessary to start researching the issue

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, like I use AI for debugging but my coworker that left for an AI company was fully doing that and we ended up archiving his MR after he left because it was full of issues down to simple hard coded site values.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 12 points 23 hours ago

Good to see that he is actively removing his virtual genes from the developer gene pool by castrating his growth.

[–] anewfox@lemmy.zip 26 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

this is legitimately what i think is happening. both with github's constant outages and windows 11 seeming to be getting worse faster than ever before. a fucking gigabyte of ram for a weather app, a beginner programming project, built like an electron app because i guess copilot doesn't know c#.

[–] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Ah yes, dogfooding dogshit.