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I’m an AI skeptic and in no sense is it taking my peers job. But it does save me time. I can do research much better than Google, explore a code base, spit out helper functions, and review for obvious mistakes.


Yep. And the more time I spend with the agents the more I’m convinced that your way is the endgame.


So what do you mean with being a sceptic? I thought you meant you weren't convinced of it's usefulness, and therefore don't use it. But you do seem to use it, so what is it you're sceptible about?


I’m skeptical that it’s very smart, that it can solve hard problems, and that it’s accelerating.

I’m skeptical vibe coding is really viable or saves you time.


Ok, so what are you actually using it for?


Oh sorry, I see in your original post you use it for research, codebase exploration, and small coding tasks.

I think you hit the nail on the head with that AI is ultimately not smart, it'll be dependent on humans for a long time, and we have to review their work, so they won't easily replace us.

In that sense I'm also sceptical; the idea that AI can soon replace us.

But I'm not sceptical about the power of AI as a tool for humans. I'm actually quite convinced by that by now. Hence my confusion of your remark. But I think we understand the misunderstanding now.




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