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To all the vibe coders: When you let an LLM author code, it takes ownership of that code (in the engineering sense). When you're done spending millions on tok
by lionkor 7mo ago
To all the vibe coders:
When you let an LLM author code, it takes ownership of that code (in the engineering sense).
When you're done spending millions on tokens, years of development, prompt fine tuning, model fine tuning, and made the AI vendor the fattest wad of cash ever seen, you know what the vendor will do?
You have to migration path. Your Codex prompts don't work the same in Claude. All the prompts you developed and saved in commits, all the (probably proprietary) memory the AI vendor saved in their servers to make the AI lock you in even more, all of it is worthless without the vendor.
You are inventing "ah heck, we need to pay the consultant another 300 bucks an hour to take a look at this, because nobody else owns this code", but supercharged.
You're locking yourself in, to a single vendor, to such a degree that they can just hold your code hostage.
Now sure, OpenAI would NEVER do this, because they're all just doing good for humanity. Sure. What if they go out of business? Or discontinue the model that works for you, and the new ones just don't quite respond the same to your company's well established workflows?
- threethirtytwo 7mo agoI was locked into apple chips, amd chips and intel chips long ago. Everyone is already locked into one of these companies. The fact of reality is that the technology is so complex only for-profit centralized powers can really create these things. Linux and open source was a fluke and even then open source developers need closed source jobs to pay for their time doing open source. We are locked in and this is the future. Accept it or deny it one is delusional the other is reality. The world is transforming into vibe coding whether you like it or not. Accept reality. If you love programming, if you care for the craft. If programming is a form of artistry for you, if programming is your identity and status symbol. Then know that under current trends… all of that is going into the trash. Better rebuild a new identity quick. A lot of delusional excuse scaffolds people build around themselves to protect their identity is they just say “the hard part of software wasn’t really programming” which is kind of stupid because AI covers the hard part too.. in fact it covers it better then actual coding. Either way this excuse is more viable then “ai is useless slop”
- echelon 7mo ago> When you're done spending millions on tokens, years of development, prompt fine tuning, model fine tuning, and made the AI vendor the fattest wad of cash ever seen, you know what the vendor will do? They'll hire the person who knows AI, not the human clinging onto claims of artisanal character by character code. It's entirely possible to engineer well-designed and intentional systems with AI tools and not stochastically "vibe" your way into tech debt. AI engineers will get hiring preference. That is until we're all replaced by full agentic engineering. And that's coming.
- lionkor 7mo agoIt's almost like I addressed my entire comment to vibe coders and NOBODY else, because other uses of AI are pretty valid
- thi2 7mo agoIt is the same as adding dependencies or hosting on Azure/Aws, choosing a nosql db isn't it?
- lionkor 7mo agoWell, except it's your entire codebase, yeah