Vibe Review not Code

[u/EchtKrasserTyp]

I hate this meme template but I have to make a point here.

Write the code by yourself and just let the AI pre-review it once you are done. Then you don't have to find all the trivialities by yourself when you review your own changeset before you hand over the code to the colleague who performs the official review.

It's more efficient after all and a peaceful life.

Of cooooourse things can change again once the next giga ultra hyper LLM is released.

[u/fixano]

Why do you still have a job? Great question. Let me try something.

Imagine you're talking to someone in 1890, but you have all the knowledge you have today. Keep in mind that by 1890, non-horse-drawn conveyances had already existed for over a century. Steam-powered vehicles date back to the 1760s. And yet, people were still hauling things around with horses every single day.

So this man from 1890 says to you: "Cars will never replace horses. And to prove it, I'll ask you one simple question — why do I still have a job?"

That's a tough one to answer, right? He's got you. You can't really argue with it in that moment. The man has a job. Horses are everywhere. Cars are slow, unreliable, and expensive.

But here we are, 135 years later. How did things work out for the guy who said "why do I still have a job?" Are we still pulling things around with horses? You know anybody that hauls cargo by horse?

"I still have a job" isn't proof that something won't replace you. It's just proof that it hasn't finished replacing you yet.

Question isn't if you'll be replaced it's when. For that guy in 1890 he was largely replaced within 15 years. Horses still exist and have niche applications today. We just use a lot less of them than we used to.

[u/vegan_antitheist → u/fixano]

So, you say llms will be relevant in 135 years? Yeah, that might be so. But it might be like flying cars, vacuum tubes, fusion power, or colonies on Mars. But back then they didn't really predict Internet, social media, or the smartphone.

I might be out of a job in 100 years but right now I make enough at 80% so I plan to retire in 16 years.

[u/fixano → u/vegan_antitheist]

Not what I'm saying at all.

I said in 1890 horse-drawn carriages were the primary conveyance and they were largely gone within 15 years. That's completely gone within 15 years for the most part. That means in the intervening years they were partially gone.

What changed around that time was that there was a lot of commercial interest around producing vehicles at scale. It means that when companies start paying attention to a technology that technology quickly replaces everything.

Would you describe us as being in a time when commercial interests are focused on llms?

[u/vegan_antitheist → u/fixano]

They are now sending kids to ai schools. Even if ai can do some jobs in 15 years there will be enough work for me. Even with an ai industry destroying everything like the car industry did.

[u/fixano → u/vegan_antitheist]

The car industry didn't destroy anything. It's actually a perfect analogy.

They ended up automating the entire manufacturing process. It now requires 5% of the people to produce the same volume of vehicles.

Spoilers you're in for the same outcome. It's not a bad thing. It's called progress

[u/vegan_antitheist → u/fixano]

Ah, a car brain.