> AI can give you correct answers all day long, but if you don't understand what you're building, you'll end up just like the people of Magrathea, staring at 42

> AI can give you correct answers all day long, but if you don't understand what you're building, you'll end up just like the people of Magrathea, staring at 42 and wondering what to do with it. Yeah it's so true. LLM's tell you what you want to hear based on the input you give it. If you know the domain, it's really powerful because it can output what you want it to output at an incredibly fast rate. If you don't, you're basically rolling the dice on what it gives you. The idea that programmers are now useless because it can output something is hilariously wrong. The quality of the input has a direct impact on the quality of the output, meaning people with domain expertise (i.e. software developers) is a crucial component to its utility. In other words, vibe coding is useless unless the viber has the correct vibes. Or in other other words, being a good programmer is fundamental to the technology producing useful results. As such, we aren't going to see a total replacement of software developers, but rather that good software developers will increase their productive output.