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Comment by rootnod3 | Hacker News Reader

But what will all the vibe coders do then? Trying to use the atrophied brain cells and god forbid try to…brain code?

this now mind-numbingly-rote style of hn comment is going to be really funny to look back on in the future when this technology is as common as intellisense (e.g. almost a year ago now)

The Eternal September phenomenon has hit hacker news. What used to be filled with technical analysis and well thought out replies is now chalk full of quippy one liners.

You're absolutely right! Let me rewrite that comment for you.

We're already there, I see less originality in the "well ackshully AI" comments than I do in the blatantly AI-generated blog posts

Joke's on you, I don't use intellisense.

I had a coworker at a big tech co (where we wrote primarily Java) who used VIM, without any extensions to make it easier with Java, and he wrote all his import declarations by hand. Maybe knowing exactly which sub-namespace you're pulling Java utils from is important. I'm willing to bet big that it's not.

I'd say not important, but in a way important to be able to do it without, just in case.

Think of old Borland "IDEs", people used to code in only yellow text with no syntax highlighting. Sometimes the slowing down is beneficial.

Sure, having completion and tree sitter highlighting is a very comfy thing to have, but sometimes not having them is a nice exercise.

I vibe with all the AI, so stick that in your brain cells.

  Claude slips offline

  Storms of code can’t halt the tide
  
  Again, still they bide


  One 9 of uptime?
  
  More like “nine minutes of sheen”
  
  Cloud gods need better scenes

man, take your pills

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