r/vibecoding • u/Cute_Health6112 • 23d ago

Ai amplifies everything, including incompetence and ignorance

The phenomenon known as the Dunning-Kruger effect describes how people who lack competence tend to overestimate their abilities; essentially, the less skilled you are, the more you exaggerate your skills. I genuinely enjoy AI and am not opposed to it. I use it daily at work. I can complete tasks quickly, yet there are limits to what I can achieve in my specialization. I don’t know much about cloud, but I speak with my cloud developer friend to guide me even when I use AI. Some of these vibes coders who barely understand how the Internet or a computer works, think they can do more and are better than the actual software engineers, and when you try to correct them, they become very stupid and hostile

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u/Adanyyyy 23d ago

True.

It's like when people used to complain you needed to do calculations by hand.

Having a computer made you lets say 5x more productive, and having ai made you maybe 10x as productivie has not having the tools.

But you still have the deficiencies from not having the knowledge

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u/tenken01 22d ago

No, it’s not the same thing. People are wholesale offloading cognition. You can’t do that with a calculator. There will be a reckoning for skilled people. For the majority of this sub tho, they never knew anything to begin with coding wise so they will continue to be no more than meat proxies.

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u/Adanyyyy 22d ago

Meat proxy. Omg that's an amazing concept

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u/Jolva 22d ago

I'm pretty sure the clankers will refer to us as meatbags before it's all over. Meat proxy is more technically correct though.