I’m a fan of AI, I know that’s unpopular here but I think it’s a cool tool.

But you need to know what you are doing and how to program. I’ve said before we are going to see sooo much of this

The reality is we will always need engineers. Certainly not ready yet, but we probably won’t always need “programmers” - which is a shame because I do get a kick out of solving a really complex problem in a super elegant way

Sucked in!

A dog dressed up as a goose is about the best you can expect from a goose really

First good goose story I have ever heard ever

Is that a coffee percolator fish tank?

Lol I own a distillery and this tracks

That’s really interesting. I think I might finally be of beekeeping age

If we can convince them their dick size is measured by how much charity / benefit they do with their wealth we will solve many of the world’s problems overnight

Just put a sign up that reads “Cash is King Prawn” problem solved

Tate will probably be the next leader of the Republican party

Android is Linux

At least own the libs

Ngl looks like he pissed himself

Claude code can make something that works, but it’s kinda over engineered and really struggles to make an elegant solution that maximises code reuse - it’s the opposite of DRY.

I’m doing a personal project at the moment and used it for a few days, made good progress but it got to the point where it was just a spaghetti mess of jumbled code, and I deleted it and went back to implementing each component one at a time and then wiring them together manually.

My current workflow is basically never let them work on more than one file at a time, and build the app one component at a time, starting at the ground level and then working in, so for example:

Create base classes that things will extend, Then create an example data model class, iterate on that architecture A LOT until it’s really elegant.

Then Ive been getting it to write me a generator - not the actual code for models,

Then (level 3) we start with be UI.layer, so now we make a UI kit the app will use and reuse for different components

Then we make a UI component that will be used in a screen. I’m using flutter as an example so It would be a stateless component

We now write tests for the component

Now we do a screen, and I import each of the components.

It’s still very manual, but it’s getting better. You are still going to need a human cider, I think forever, but there are two big problems that aren’t being addressed because people are just putting their head in the sand and saying nah can’t do it, or the clown op in the post who thinks they can do it.

1. Because dogs be clownin, the public perception of programming as a career will be devalued “I’ll just make it myself!” Or like my rich engineer uncle said to me when I was doing websites professionally - a 13 year old can just make a website, why would I pay you so much to do it. THAT FUCKING SUCKS. But a similar attitude has existed from people “I’ll just hire Indians”. This is bullshit, but perception is important and it’s going to require you to justify yourself for a lot more work.

2. And this is the flip side good news. These skills you have developed - it’s is going to be SO MUCH FUCKING HARDER TO LEARN THEM. When you can just say “hey generate me an app that manages customers and follow ups” and something gets spat out, you aren’t going to investigate the grind required to work out basic shit. People will simply not get to the same level they are now.

That logic about how to scaffold and architect an app in a sensible way - USING AI TOOLS - is actually the new skillset. You need to know how to build the app, and then how to efficiently and effectively use the new tools to actually construct it. Then you need to be able to do code review for each change.

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I’ve been a professional full stack dev for 15 years and dabbled for years before that - I can absolutely code and know what I’m doing (and have used cursor and just deleted most of what it made for me when I let it run)

But my frontends have never looked better.

When I learned about this it was the funniest thing I had heard. Like rolled around and nearly wet myself funny.

Nobody else has shared the humour with me and I have told lots of people.

Sorry for linking to that site, but this is where I learned about it, and Reddit is pivotal to the discovery

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/ign4gw/in_rscotland_one_user_discovers_that_almost_the/

Yeah, you know you can put CSS inline / in the header, and images can be base64 encoded and put in line as well.

Same with JavaScript. It’s probably a whole single page website with no ability to cache anything and can never be bigger than the context window

Huh, til

See, now I have had a few things pegged as being in the denial phase for a while. I’m in Australia, so the housing market I have had pegged to collapse, also I figured we would be heading into a recession coming on 3 years ago and changed businesses to “weather the upcoming recession”

Now while things have cooled off since then, and I still think both elements are overcooked, I obviously moved way to soon.

So my question is, how do you time the denial phase? The housing market issue has been going on for about 30 years from what I can tell (though it got more reasonable for half a minute a bit over a decade ago and then went stupid again).

In my lifetime, and I’m 40 now, I haven’t seen a proper major correction where bad decisions and greed was punished. I should have been “taking stupid risks” the entire time and I would have been just fine.

I think I heard somewhere it was called “the bus that couldn’t slow down”