Fuck AI

I saw a quote from a woodworker the other day: “if you don’t have the time to do it right, do you have the time to do it twice?”

In that context: if you don’t have time to drill pilot holes, so you have time to redo part of your project when your wood splits?

I think this also applies to programming. “Move fast and break things” is just shorthand for “incur massive amounts of technical debt that you’ll have to go back and clean up later.”

I’ve played with vibe coding. It can crank out stuff really fast. Stuff that kinda works, and I have to spend extra time sorting through, understanding, and debugging. Greater total time than it would have take to write it myself.

LLMs are good for boilerplate and for things that used to be stackoverflow questions. And for bootstrapping in a new framework or language. But beyond that, no, not great, not replacing people.

Y’all, be aware of the goal of all this: capital wants to discipline labor with threats of layoffs and replacements. That’s it. They want you working longer hours for less compensation.