And we still have to play the guessing game where we try to estimate the number that the government already knows, but won’t divulge to us, like some sort of fucked up psychological game.

This shit is so fucked. I’m awaiting the collapse.

Turns out billionaires are just dumb un-evolved adults with high schooler-level brains and tons of money.

This is clever. Thanks for sharing! I’ve been kinda doing this manually using Cursor. I put it into “Ask” mode and it walks me through bits. If it’s coding work that I prefer doing (I’m a frontend guy but can do backend), I write the code myself. That way I’m still retaining the knowledge like you’re doing.

20 years in the tech field for me, if you count my start as a graphic artist. I don’t even know what I’d pivot to. Cyber security maybe…?

I feel like my life is writing prompts to AI now. If you don’t fall in line, you’re basically out of a job. A human can’t keep up. If the goal was to completely ruin my desire to write code, they’ve succeeded.

I don’t really care about vibe coders but as a dev with just under 2 decades in the field:

1. Your vibe coding shit will not go to prod until humans fully review it
2. You better review it yourself first before offloading that massive mental drain to someone else (which means you still need to have some semblance of programming skills). Don’t open a PR with 250 files in it and then tell someone else to validate it.
3. Use more context. Don’t give it vague ass prompts.
4. Don’t use auto-accept. That’s just lazy asshole shit.

I can’t stress this enough: if you give me a PR with tons of new files and expect me to review it when you didn’t even review it yourself, I will 100% reject it and make you do it. If it’s all dumped into a single commit, I will whip your computer into the nearest body of water and tell you to go fish it out.

I don’t care what AI tool wrote your code. You’re still responsible for it and I will blame you.