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by florianherrengt 2mo ago
I’d expect that layer of the industry to shrink substantially. Although, I don’t think immigration or country of origin is particularly relevant here. I never worked in the US but there are plenty of "assembly line" developers her
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by florianherrengt 2mo ago
A manager isn’t normally the person deciding how the software should be architected or implemented. Their job is largely priorities, people, coordination and resource allocation. You are still an engineer but you’ve delegated your technical
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by florianherrengt 2mo ago
I tried to touch on that with this part: > Fixing it would require such a colossal amount of work that it would be impossible to even start justifying it to anyone in management. > And what are you even thinking about? It would end up
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by florianherrengt 2mo ago
Nobody is getting paid significant money just to build a simple CRUD app. Even before AI. Companies pay experienced engineers because the supposedly simple CRUD sits inside a messy real system with years of business rules, constraints, inte
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by florianherrengt 2mo ago
I think that’s a completely different problem. I’ve worked with two junior devs recently who are very good precisely because they’re trying to understand what they’re doing, rather than just producing code. I’ve also worked with senior devs
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by florianherrengt 2mo ago
But now they can now move so fast that nobody has a realistic chance to stop them before the damage compounds. They get into a much deeper mess much faster.
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AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?(blog.florianherrengt.com)
1014 points by florianherrengt 2mo ago|937 comments
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by florianherrengt 4mo ago
I would guess that low-volume scraping is probably much less likely to cause problems.
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by florianherrengt 4mo ago
How is it a spam post? It is just an amateur blog post about a small automation experiment. I am not selling anything or promoting a tool.
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by florianherrengt 4mo ago
This is also why old accounts have value. A new account doing anything unusual looks suspicious immediately. A 10yo account with normal history and real usage would probably be much less likely to get banned for the same behaviour.
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by florianherrengt 4mo ago
Yeah, fair point. I overstated that part. I’ve edited it to focus more on the actual problem: the bot starts with a large visual search space and has to narrow it down to a small target. Thanks for the feedback.
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by florianherrengt 4mo ago
The mouse might be one signal but Instagram is almost certainly looking at way more than that and feed it to some ML-based abuse detection. They likely have entire teams working on this, plus adversarial teams trying to break their own dete
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by florianherrengt 4mo ago
Have you tried to post with something like Buffer or Hootsuite?
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by florianherrengt 4mo ago
Yeah, it could definitely be used badly and there is a thin line between account management and growth-bot spam. But that is part of what makes it interesting to me. Instagram has real anti-abuse systems, rate limits, weird UI states, etc.
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How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)(blog.florianherrengt.com)
56 points by florianherrengt 4mo ago|34 comments
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
I mean it is right there at the beginning: > “I went from 4-5 parallel branches down to 2, sometimes just one. […] I had to stop to think things through.” Where do you see me drunk on power here? My point is that it isn’t faster because
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
My bet isn't against progress. It is against magical timelines peddled by those with VC incentives. I don't want to build a career on hype, sprinkled with "maybe", "could" or "soon" and ignores the ve
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
This feels like a comment shot from the hip. You fundamentally misread my argument while proving my core point. You crystallised the disconnect yourself: "with the help of Claude." The article’s first line states: "LLMs are h
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
You're describing exactly what I distinguish as legitimate AI use, not vibe coding. You're an experienced dev who understands your system deeply, making architectural decisions ("no locks, pass messages instead") and usi
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
Maybe my analogy is off, but I've been thinking of it like high-end restaurants not being threatened by fast food chains. I'm trying to understand what I'm missing here. You describe these "AI whisperers" who can ta
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
Minimum wage jobs pay low wages because a large number of people can do them. This means that if you work a minimum wage job, you're not just competing with others in your field. You're competing with anyone willing to work for mi
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
You're the perfect target audience for vibe coding.
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
According to Wikipedia, vibe coding is "fully giving in to the vibes, embracing exponentials, and forgetting that the code even exists" and "If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you've reviewed, tested, and under
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
I have no issues with that and I made it very clear. Vibe coding for non-technical people is great.
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
This is the "AI soon becomes good enough" scenario. Where is the version of this story where retail clerks enthusiastically learned the UPC scanner system and then leveraged that knowledge into better careers? The inspiring tales
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
I know what the code should be doing. But it's not doing it. Now I have to deep dive into a codebase that's far less familiar to me than if I'd written it. This isn't usually such a frequent issue because systems typica
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
Fair enough. I went back and forth on whether to include it. I kept it anyway because I thought it was a funny way to capture what I feel vibe coding is: just keep rerolling until I get what we want. Plus, I thought it would immediately shu
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
There's no way to know for sure. If there was, we wouldn't be having this conversation. But I'm trying to make an educated guess. I read the news: AI is taking over and we'll soon all be out of jobs. So I have to decide.
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
Just to be clear, I don't think there's anything fundamentaly wrong with using AI to write code. But just to make sure I got this right, I looked it up on Wikipedia: > "Karpathy described it as "fully giving in to the
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by florianherrengt 1y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that overtime some people will develop intuition for the "right vibes" and it won't be replicable by others or computers?

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