@anildash@me.dmThere are (sort of) two kinds of coders: those who see it as just a well-paying, stable job, and those who do it on nights and weekends because they love it, and it’s part of their identity. Today’s LLM tools now enable an individual to essentially be an entire software _factory_, and this is going to impact those 2 kinds of coders very differently — especially in how they respond to *both* of their bosses trying to put them out of work.
@metacurity@infosec.exchange"When you behold the prompt file of a coder using A.I., you are viewing a record of the developer’s attempts to restrain the agents’ generally competent, but unpredictably deviant, actions."
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
https://www.
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgInteresting fact:
Why do "vibe coders" put such a premium on stating how they don't even check the code or how it's all from the LLM? Like, if "AI" was just a tool, you'd be building all kinds of stuff but would you need to mostly talk about how you "built it just with AI"? It does at least hint at something weird going on here.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDevelopers on AI coding: many show enthusiasm and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some think software jobs might actually grow, more (Clive Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioHonestly this is way worse than vibe-coders, who are just ignorant jerks who don't know better.
At least the vibe-coders only think they're better than programmers and designers; the "AI software engineers" think they're better than literally everyone else.
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… @…
❌ rewrite in RUST
✅ enable RUSTY ASS coders like myself
@ocrampal@mastodon.socialAGI is Our Generation's Alchemy, And We're Too Arrogant to Admit It
The AI industry has a dirty secret: we're building toward Artificial General Intelligence without the faintest consensus on what intelligence actually is.
https://ocrampal.com/from-sophi…
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgAnthropic are now casting live coders for ad campaigns showing how great Claude is for pushing beyond their capabilities. Not sure it's quite there yet..
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialWell, I think I've just about had it with "X". I can't access either of my accounts at the moment. The unlocked one was hacked Friday and has started posting Crypto spam on it today, and the locked one seems to be suspended in some way after I changed the password.
X "support" is worse than useless.
Effing "vibe coders" and spammers. 🤬
All non-obvious advice very welcome.
@gwire@mastodon.socialLooks like the vibe coders at Microsoft forgot to add "don't introduce command injection vulnerabilities" to their prompts?
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841
@ocrampal@mastodon.socialAI's Grand Illusion: The Uncomfortable Parallel to Alchemy and Sophistry
https://www.ocrampal.com/from-sophists-to-alchemists-to-ai-coders-the-technique-without-understanding/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeI fell into it’: ex-criminal hackers urge Manchester pupils to use web skills for good
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeMozilla is hiring vibe-coders!
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsPerhaps the main difference between myself and vibe coders is that we have completely different backgrounds.
I've learned coding as a kid, with no friends and no Internet. I didn't do it because it was cool; nerdy stuff was the exact opposite of cool and was likely to get you bullied. I didn't do it because it promised good salary; as a 10-year old, I didn't ponder much about my future, let alone salary. I did it because I was bored, and it was something interesting to do.
I didn't do specific exercises, but rather created whatever I've found interesting. I wasn't graded, I had all the time in the world, and I've enjoyed solving problems. Even if I had access to the Internet, I doubt I would start looking for ready solutions and copy-pasting them. My code was always mine, and I was proud of it; at least at the time.
Of course, nowadays I do stuff I don't enjoy as well. But I'm a grown man who takes responsibility for what I do. And even if my code is shit, it is my shit, and 100% eco.
#NoAI #NoLLM
@shriramk@mastodon.socialThe state of programming in 2025. Anyways, off to write a CLAUDE•md…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialAnd a few years later Apple gave us a preview of OpenDoc, which looked like a real contender for a new development model. Which got Steved. @… https://mastodon.social/@jonathanhog…
@cjust@infosec.exchangeHumans are better coders than AI, CodeRabbit concludes
Security researchers analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, including 320 AI-co-authored PRs and 150 human-only PRs. In short, they found that AI tools accelerate code output, but also amplify the number of (critical) mistakes.
https://
@anildash@me.dmAmidst all the buzz around things like Gas Town and Ralph, etc. there are some bits of actual substance that promise to actually empower coders — and potentially shift the power dynamic away from Big AI, while making it easier to create software just by describing ideas in plain text. I've been thinking of the idea as "codeless" software creation, for lack of a better term (the jargon doesn't matter, I just needed a name to talk about it) and would love your thoughts!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSimilarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender" (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-code-ai-7a46…
