this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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AI is absolutely useful. Speaking as a developer, it has definitely changed my profession.
This is more like the dotcom bubble. There's a seed of truth in there, but it's buried in overhype, nonsense, and chaff.
Many developers do not use any "AI" and continue to write code by hand.
Many drivers refuse cars and still use horse and buggy.
I'm so surprised, because I've never heard anyone ever use that analogy before ever. 🙃
No, this is not a car vs horse thing. It's more like trying to replace a horse with a car that randomly steers off the road in the opposite direction AND explodes if you sneeze on it.
It's a car vs horse thing and the execs want the car to be driverless.
Can you program without any LLM now, tho?
Yeah? First, it hasn't been that long. Second, I'm not vibing when I do real work. I'm being very targeted and reviewing and preventing slop. When used this way, it's not that different from using Stack Overflow.