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I use it and it works. It doesn't give you the right result in one shot, but neither does manual coding. You iterate and prompt again and again. In the end, it saves a ton of time. Engineers are definitely going to lose their jobs because fewer people are needed. I know its tough to accept this and people will go through denial. Part of that is saying the AI code is junk. But, you'll find it can produce junk and quickly fix it into the right solution faster than an engineer can. It sucks, but this is the new reality. The one thing that is cool once you embrace it is that you realize you can customize your favorite apps or even build anything you want from scratch.
Sorry mate, but you drank the AI koolaid from Sam Altman and the other tech oligarchs. The reality is that all of the major AI companies are deep in the red, OpenAI isn't even making a profit with the 200$ subscription.
The only reason people are able to burn thousands of tokens to vibecode their apps is that they don't have to pay the price for that, the companies are. This money will run out soon and then we will see the real cost for the bigger models.
If a subscription for Claude Code costs 500$ or even 1000$, will companies still pay for it or let actual humans do the work? We will see. I seriously doubt it, and I don't want to depend on a subscription-based service to do my work while my skills are atrophying. Thank god my employer doesn't force me to use AI.
This kind of fear-mongering is what I despise most about the whole bubble.
I haven't drank Koolaid. I'm talking from my experience using it in my professional software engineering job where I lead software projects. I've built things that used to take 20 weeks in 1 week with Claude. My employer does not really care about the cost of the tokens. And, when they can have one engineer do 20 weeks of work in 1 week, that to them is actually a cost savings. I already ask myself the question ... Should I give this task to another engineer or just vibecode it myself?
OpenAI may not survive because they do have financial issues from overspending, but that barely matters. The company with the strongest coding LLM is Anthropic and it doesn't sound like they're having financial difficulty. Either way, now that it is clear what is possible, some company will succeed.They have incentives to do it.
Like I said, it will suck for some people, but its hard to deny the reality at this point.
You still need programmers because you need people proficient in programming to be able to tell how to fix the junk that it generates into working code.
Sure, but like I said, it will be fewer.
I think the last part you said is the best way to use LLMs. I am not confident in it building complex architectures but if you want to make a dedicated single use script or a very customised basic application for personal use, it will do it well
can you elaborate?
Github is full of open source apps. Some times the maintainer won't add a feature you want. You can just clone the repo and ask Claude to do it and then run your own version of it.