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@jorgecandeias @spritely

@jkb wow are vibe coders the 9gag of code

@DevWouter But it has tons of value! It's a non-rivalrous good. And that's GREAT in many ways. I am all for code being a non-rivalrous good.

But I don't feel the situation here is the same as it's been for the last 20 years. I don't feel the same way I've felt about it for the last 20 years.

In a sense, the decision is somewhat made for us in that we're developing next-generation stuff that LLMs don't know how to auto-code at @spritely. We are working on core infrastructure that needs to be carefully thought about and written. LLMs introduce a lot of errors and aren't good at doing this kind of work on their own.

And the goal was always that our work is there to be lifted from, to spread outward, the way people have long drawn from the well of the MIT / Stanford research labs in CS for decades, but for decentralized networking today

But doing it now, in this way, in this environment, it's just really depressing and demotivating.

It's demotivating to think that:

- LLMs aren't good at producing original / novel work
- You still need experts to advance that stuff
- It will always be slower to move without using LLMs
- Once an innovation is done though, an innovation can always be scooped up by the LLM users
- "Bro why are you doing all this manually, I just vibe coded that in a weekend"

Will it always be this way? It's depressing in the meanwhile, at least.