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   Bela Lugosi's R⬜ (jimbob@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 11:12:08 JST Bela Lugosi's R⬜

   I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.

   If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.

   If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.

   This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.

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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 19:27:22 JST Fish of Rage

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     @jimbob Basically yeah, only the best people should program, and without IDEs
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     Alex, the Hearth Fire (wizardofdocs@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 03:49:37 JST Alex, the Hearth Fire

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     @jimbob this is why, next time someone tries to get me to learn prompt engineering, and I can't just ignore it, I'm going to say "no thanks, I want to have skills when the bubble bursts"

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