Know a guy who tried to use AI to vibe code a simple web server. He wasn't a programmer and kept insisting to me that programmers were done for.

After weeks of trying to get the thing to work, he had nothing. He showed me the code, and it was the worst I've ever seen. Dozens of empty files where the AI had apparently added and then deleted the same code. Also some utter garbage code. Tons of functions copied and pasted instead of being defined once.

I then showed him a web app I had made in that same amount of time. It worked perfectly. Never heard anything more about AI from him.

Looks like the kidnapper also stole the null terminator for this string!

I've seen this same thing happen with Python's type hints. Turns out giving an "escape hatch" type for devs who have no clue what the type actually is leads to a lot of useless type hints.

What the hell are you talking about

I'm a bit confused about the premise of the article. Does anyone assert that typing speed is a bottleneck at all? I've been in the industry for years, and have never heard that claim.

I do agree about the whole "less code is not always more", but I get confused when the author keeps bringing it back to typing speed.

What the heck is this paywalled article doing here? That's some reddit-level shit.

It would be slower to read the value if you had to also do bitwise operations to get the value.

But you can also define your own bitfield types to store booleans packed together if you really need to. I would much rather that than have the compiler do it automatically for me.

It's a joke omg

Most sites load no content at all if JS is disabled.

Bold of you to assume they even clicked the link

A lot of people seem to be celebrating this, but I personally think this is a net negative for programming. Are people actually replacing SO with talking to LLMs? If not, where are they going?

I've seen an uptick in people using places like discord to get help. But that's not easily searchable and not in the same format that it is in stackoverflow. SO was meant to organize these answers to make asking questions easier. Now it seems like we're walking away from that, and I can't quite understand why. Is it really because SO is "toxic"?

I don't really get why we need social media elements in GitHub at all

What does "FE" stand for in this context? Sorry if it's obvious, I just don't see anywhere that it's actually written out.

I can't understand how anyone attempts to participate in conversation on that site. People will tell you it's "building your network" and that it's "helping your career," but the reality is it's just a bunch of business people jerking each other off over words that mean nothing.

Bet you $50 we later learn this guy was orchestrating a supply chain attack.

This comment is completely irrational. The fahrenheit temperature is in a screenshot of a text message that was sent in the US. The only temperature in the message you replied to that isn't in the screenshot is in Celsius. How is that "American exceptionalism"?

Any context on him "trashing his reputation"?

The const improvements are fantastic. Keep up the good work!

lol just go write C instead

I'm confused. What makes you think they have been put in a position of authority? Anyone can simply create a fork, or a separate project completely, and go a different direction. You're not obligated to use any third party crate.

I do agree that they handled that interaction pretty poorly, though.