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You guys cannot be serious, it feels like Poe’s Law day everyday in here!

It really is insane how much this topic is dividing technical folks.

What GP wrote sounds like an absolute nightmare of tech debt and unmaintainable spaghetti code that nobody understands anymore to me.

But I guess for some people the increased speed outweighs all other concerns?

"Where are we? Are we where we wanted to be?"

"I'm not sure. But at least we got here fast."

I have to agree that the comment you are referring to seems to be nothing other than sarcasm despite that it doesn’t read that way at all. If it’s true, the world is definitely in trouble…

if you can't get ai to handle git, that's certainly a skill issue

Have you considered returning to actual software engineering and workflows that tools were designed to support instead of playing the LLM slot machine?

Funny the replies you're getting here when already we see companies with engineers not having written a single line of code since late last year when models became good enough to go end to end.

We see companies running web apps on top of Oracle or not using any version control at all, let alone agentic coding; it doesn't mean it's a good idea because someone is crazy enough to do it.

I thought the consensus what that vibe coding is a bad idea and you're supposed to review whatever is machine-generated, however "good enough" you believe it to be.

Where did I say it was a good idea?

Okay, please explain why the replies are funny.

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog, you learn more but you kill it in the process.

It was a joke? It comes across like you pointing out someone missing evidence and being wrong. Obviously you used the word "funny" but that's not usually a word that goes in a joke.

Nevertheless the joke is already dead. There's no reason not to explain.

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