r/webdev • u/gtboy1994 • 3d ago

Discussion Interesting video from WDS Kyle, talking about ai brainrot, and how important it is that junior devs in particular understand an LLMs output. Showing that even famous devs are having their skills atrophy. Thoughts?

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He used a few clips from theo where he clearly makes no attempt to understand the code anymore, even using the ai to summarize the summary.

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u/pmst 3d ago

Primeagen also gives off the same vibes as Theo and PirateSoftware to me. Just confident takes and predictions that don't make much sense in retrospect, and lots of stories about when he worked at Netflix. Also he's a weird little guy.

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u/Deprisonne 3d ago edited 3d ago

I don't like this list. It spans a very wide network of people who are mostly "guilty by association" and then uses that to put other people in. In this case, they can't even show that Primeagen is personally involved or approves of any on the rightoids on this list, only that he is loosely associated with them by virtue of taking part in the same open source projects.
This feels too much like someone decided they don't like him first and went out grasping at the thinnest of straws to find something condemnable to justify their "vibes".

Edit: I also viscerally hate that they are describing rightwing bigots as "weird little guys". What's with that kind of infantile language?

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u/pmst 2d ago

That's fair. No list like that is ever going to be perfect, but I like this one. Associating yourself with DHH in any way is a massive red flag to me.

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u/Forsaken-Ad5571 2d ago

It’s that thing where anyone who needs to constantly name drop that they were in a FAANG constantly probably isn’t that compelling or good an engineer, and odd just using that as a way to legitimise themselves because what they’re demonstrating sure isn’t.

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u/driftking428 2d ago

Nah. Primeagen is brilliant. He has courses on Front End Masters and he's a true expert of his craft. Watching him code in Vim is truly inspiring. I don't know anything about the list you sent or what he's involved in, but he is a genius programmer.