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Variations of this comment/argument are literally everywhere on reddit. Part of me wants to think it's bots astroturfing, but most of me is just exhausted.

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people love saying this and then studies show that there’re no productivity gains for experienced developers or on enterprise teams and we’re just seeing a bunch of vibe-coded apps nobody uses flood app stores—and the code that llms produce is bug-ridden, unreadable, and unmaintainable

There was a redditor who used 'AI' to reverse engineer Beads firmware, and when he finished, then he asked Emilie for "permission" to release it. She open sourced it hours later.

My vocally anti-AI colleagues at work who are software engineers... Use AI and say it makes them more productive. They bemoan what this does to entry level programming jobs and call it "the lying machine", "the plagiarism machine", etc, but it helps them hit their KPIs

It's exhausting. I had to explain why I'm not a "top Claude user" and thankfully "trying to automate manual digital accessibility audits would, by definition, make them not manual and the results would still need to be manually verified" was an acceptable answer.