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Deserved

Prediction: after covid / remote overhire, we can see significant decrease of SWE job offers. What’s next: offer count / salary growth. Entrepreneurs will need real engineers to fix their ai slop asap.

Karan Karia Jason David Scott | AI By Your Side @levelsio Tim Soret Andrej Karpathy The general problem of LLM is that they are trained to “follow instructions”. Even reasoning models. They don’t actually “think”, they do what you tell them. If you don’t mention “protect from XSS/SQL injection / 1000 more shit like this” they will not do it

Karan Karia Jason David Scott | AI By Your Side @levelsio Tim Soret Andrej Karpathy Saying so, SWE is not a guy who codes. It’s a problem solver who designs instructions to machines, doesn’t matter if it’s a code or plain English with AI. That’s the difference between coder and non-coder. Not programming language knowledge, but a specific mindset

Building actually working software

>vibe coded >stanford cs grad phd

Yesterday i used ~20 prompts (failed) and finally had to read docs to just write ffmpeg command for adding watermark to video and make it work properly with streaming. Not code. One command. But i guess it’s because I’m not cs phd, skill issue

It was possible for ~2 years since stable diffusion

>be me >grind for a decade trying to help make superintelligence to cure cancer or whatever >mostly no one cares for first 7.5 years, then for 2.5 years everyone hates you for everything >wake up one day to hundreds of messages: "look i made you into a twink ghibli style haha"

This IS what is coding actually. Not writing classes and methods

Coding then vs. coding now

Of course

Use only self-hosted, open-source MCP. ANY third-party MCP on the internet can steal your data.

this is still my favorite meme of all time

What’s even more insane, lots websites log me out after a day of inactivity or smth. I even seen this in real time once, the react shit literally updated to logged out status while I was moving my mouse to click a button