Interesting how we got frank propaganda on the front page now. Pretty sad. There are no jobs. Not real jobs.

This a covert op to buttress LLM support by planting this article and having people say it's just like compacting. The hype is getting more elaborate.

Probably is. Unless you're the top 20% you're probably on the chopping block via RNG and sometimes just whole departments are getting sacked for 'automations'.

Yup and the industry is worse than ever.

Maybe you forgot that important tidbit?

People are using them because they're being shoved down their throats and they're complacent.

Software quality, maintainability, exploitability, morale, competency are all at all-time lows and just worsening.

It's really bad to defend this.

I spent the last 6 months reviewing all of the AI generated code primarily with gpt 5.3 codex but after I bought the subscription I also used gpt 5.5 and although I was constantly rejecting the bad code and I was mostly happy with the end result.

Then they removed the approve everything manually mode and I thought, maybe I'm the one out of touch, I should try vibe coding. I gave it a big spec of things to implement and I was pretty vague on the details, but I was kind of hoping that the AI would get it right anyway.

I noticed that when you let the AI just do its thing, you spend a lot of time staring at the screen waiting for it to finish. No wonder all these people are obsessed with parallel agents.

Anyway, after a while it produced the end result and it was pretty bad and I don't even mean the code. This was with gpt 5.6 Terra. Definitively not the type of "did a week's worth of work in one hour" type of deal.

Meanwhile if you guide it with your own technical skills the end result is a tireless code generator that operates at 80% of the quality of your own code but is only roughly 1.5x to 2x faster than doing it yourself. The biggest multipliers come from making the AI do things humans don't want to do, like writing a bunch of thorough tests but those don't translate into increased productivity, the opposite in fact. They translate into higher software quality but if you vibe the tests and don't review them, even that disappears.

> you spend a lot of time staring at the screen waiting for it to finish

Got annoyed enough at this to build a FOSS tool for it: https://github.com/Roy3838/Observer.

A small local LLM watches your screen and notifies/calls you when the agent finishes or stalls on a prompt :D

to avoid lot os problems i use kaplira to help maintain de code in boundaries and not let the agent do everything they want.

yes i have written a jillion lines with AI as well

i'm a worse programmer now because of it

where do u work that even hires juniors lol

Because they're literally the devil

The fact that we had "The End of Programming" then "No one wants artisanal code anymore" and now "It's not the end of programming"

Getting a really really artificial vibe about the content being pushed to this website :/

Making me feel less motivated to even come here to be honest

First it was "The End of Programming" two hours ago.

Now this one. Lol

Nobody wants human written prose (or maybe even thoughts as well) any more apparently.

To be fair I'm not sure HN ever wanted prose in the first place, usually just a headline will do.

First it was that article about how 60℅ of HN posts were AI generated

I really, honestly think the writeup goes beyond the headline and is well worth the read and the time.-

Holy AI Batman