Anders429

Know a guy who tried to use AI to vibe code a simple web server. He wasn't a programmer and kept insisting to me that programmers were done for.

After weeks of trying to get the thing to work, he had nothing. He showed me the code, and it was the worst I've ever seen. Dozens of empty files where the AI had apparently added and then deleted the same code. Also some utter garbage code. Tons of functions copied and pasted instead of being defined once.

I then showed him a web app I had made in that same amount of time. It worked perfectly. Never heard anything more about AI from him.

"no, having a meeting about it won't help, it will just waste my time that I could be using to figure out the problem."

This describes literally every python contract job I've ever had.

lol just go write C instead

It's a joke omg

This comment is completely irrational. The fahrenheit temperature is in a screenshot of a text message that was sent in the US. The only temperature in the message you replied to that isn't in the screenshot is in Celsius. How is that "American exceptionalism"?

The const improvements are fantastic. Keep up the good work!

lmao what book is this?

Any context on him "trashing his reputation"?

Of course not. That title belongs to Fruit Ninja.

Most new books I find are books I check out from my local library. While the library did pay for a copy, so it's not quite the same, as a reader I didn't pay anything for it. The barrier to trying the new book is very small, and if I don't like it I haven't lost anything.

Readers finding your book online for free are having the same experience. Maybe not everyone who reads it will want to buy copies, but some will. Just like how some who find your book in a library would want to buy their own copy.

It's like saying someone stole your bike and you don't want to be immoral by stealing it back.