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Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs
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this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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I can only say I find it useful for coding, and its way faster to ask it questions instead of searching documentation. It can read the code base, and explain it to me instead of me trying to understand the cryptic 2 and 3 letter variable names the last a hole used, in their 57 state state machine, all states just numbered, no names (why a state machine in python? Some people...) Then when I want to change something in the code that is substantial, I can ask it to write a draft that I then refine, saving keystrokes on boiler plate. It can suggest data structures and algorithms I've not yet used or heard of, and then I can learn about them, making me smarter as well.
I did this all on my own before with a lot of grep and find commands, reading python/perl/c++/tcl/git/cvs documentation. Then tracking down someone to explain the piece Im not understanding. It turns a few weeks worth of hard effort into a relaxed few days of feeling more productive.
Even just linting, I can ask it, why is this function not giving me the expected outcome (in terms that simple), and it finds the 1 off error faster than me, like in 5 sec in 500 lines of code.
Its like having someone with perfect recall that has read all of the code base, and all comp science info on the web, sitting next to me. Its not a great coder, but I can get the information i need to be the good coder I am faster than google and grep. Not using it now is like insisting that O'Reilly books (which i have read for fun in the past) are better than searching the online docs or google.
The explicit and only goal at my company is to produce 100% of code with ai. They don't care if it's crap. Neither do I.
The more you use it for coding, the worse you get at coding skills. I can feel it already. I'm not a programmer any more. I'm a manager of a hyperactive mid level developer who's overly confident and doesn't ask enough questions.
My favorite is when the ai reviewer in the pr criticizes the code the ai agent wrote. Like ok? It's trash and I don't care. Ignore and hit resolve.
AI can‘t read or write. It processes and computes data in entirely different ways than we do: Based on probability. It doesn‘t understand context at all. We‘ll see how well vibe coding holds up in due time when more of our infrastructure is vibe coded and fewer solutions are actually understood.
I wouldn't call what im doing vibe coding, would you?
Ill also say, who cares if it reads or writes? The point is it makes me more effective at my job, the fact it is presented as a conversation as opposed to another format is an implementation detail not a critical feature.