Comment by jryio

Comment by jryio 3 days ago

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In the last few months we have worked with startups who have vibe coded themselves into an abyss. Either because they never made the correct hires in the first place or they let technical talent go. [1]

The thinking was that they could iterate faster, ship better code, and have an always on 10x engineer in the form of Claude code.

I've observed perfectly rational founders become addicted to the dopamine hit as they see Claude code output what looks like weeks or years of software engineering work.

It's overgenerous to allow anyone to believe AI can actually "think" or "reason" through complex problems. Perhaps we should be measuring time saved typing rather than cognition.

[1] vibebusters.com

JustExAWS 3 days ago

As if startups before LLMs were creating great code. Right now on the front page, a YC company is offering a “Founding Full Stack Engineer” $100K-$150K. What quality of code do you think they will end up with?

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/text-ai/jobs/OJBr0v2-f...

  • zdragnar 3 days ago

    Notably, that is a company that... adds AI to group chats. Startups offering crap salaries with a vague promise of equity in a vague product idea with no moat are a dime a dozen, and have been well before LLMs came around.

    • JustExAWS 3 days ago

      How did they get YC funding? It doesn’t seem like they have even a POC or any technical employees.

      • cde-v 2 days ago

        Have you seen the companies YC has been funding recently? All you need to do is mention AI and YC will throw some money your way. I don't know if you saw my first attempt at a post, but someone should suggest AI for HN comment formatting and I'm sure it will be funded.

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        Workflow86 — AI for workflow automation

        ZeroEval — AI for agent evaluation and optimization

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gregoryl 3 days ago

Shush please. I wasn't old enough to cash in on the Y2K contracting boons; I'm hoping the vibe coding 200k LOC b2b AI slop "please help us scale to 200 users" contracting gigs will be lucrative.

s_dev 2 days ago

Completely agree, software developers need to be using agentic coding as a writing tool not as a thinking tool.

DirkH 3 days ago

Give it a year or 2. Its not like 2 years ago everyone wasn't saying it would be 10+ years before AI can do what it does now.

  • johnnyanmac 3 days ago

    >Its not like 2 years ago everyone wasn't saying it would be 10+ years before AI can do what it does now.

    So far I don't see that notion disproved. Ai still doesn't truly "reason with" nor understand the data it outputs.