The premise is flawed. What makes companies valuable is not having engineers with the ability to write good code.
Also
> Alas. Because, and I cannot stress this enough, I am not an engineer.
And then...
> Though it’s hard to benchmark how far I got in two days, this is my best guess: The app is roughly equivalent to what a designer and a couple professional engineers could build in a month or two.
"I have an idea for how to make a note-taking app that’s actually right"
I'm reminded of the bell-curve image that starts and ends with Apple Notes or a simple paper notebook. I always get the feeling that people who think that the technology is limiting their note taking abilities are looking for the wrong solution.
“My long-loved thesis, when rendered on a screen, was catastrophically bad”
This is no small thing, you had an idea, you were able to try it out, and found it didn’t work.
But this does give you an understanding, and you no longer need to keep wondering if your idea is the answer.
>Though it’s hard to benchmark how far I got in two days, this is my best guess: The app is roughly equivalent to what a designer and a couple professional engineers could build in a month or two.
Comedy
As the author suggests, all kinds of domain experts are going to be freed to use a computer to solve their own problems, without having to first communicate them to a developer or team.
Plus, everything needed to deploy it and monetize has been turned into APIs which the LLMs know, so this can be added too.
Can’t wait to see what this new era gives us!
Manifest.
I’ve been looking for the perfect word for what AI allows me to do and I think manifest is it. I can conjure things and it feels like magic. Like poof here it just is. Like it was always there and I’m just noticing it.
Too much hype x hyperbolic headline = lots of typing to explain why it’s wrong.
So much energy burnt to this.
I haven't been able to vibe code Rust. It must be just a React / JavaScript thing.
coding using llms, ai vibe coding, whatever you may call it, is the new "have fun staying poor" crypto bro wave. It's not new either. It should work well enough for generic stuff. Nothing new to come of it, though.
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When you don't know what a profession does, you trivialize it.
This person isn't an engineer. They think that they made something reasonable in a day or two that an engineer would take a month to do.
This is exactly how AI people look at say radiologists. Oh, they'll be replaced by some computer vision, they just look at pictures and say "good or bad", right?
This is why all of those surveys where people are asked how is AI going to impact some profession are garbage. They mostly ask people who don't know what that profession is, to guess.