Ignorance, fear, or are you just following the kid’s trend of anti-ai, pushback against corporate desperation?

It’s not realistic to expect no AI assistance in coding in 2026.

It’s also not a stand-in for a human. There’s a huge field of gray where it’s unclear how much of it was fully vibe coded vs how much is carefully hand reviewed and/or written.

I’ve been a professional developer for decades and I’ve done both. Obviously I’ve hand coded stuff for many years. The fully vibe coded stuff is personal, to test and learn the capabilities of the tech. My professional stuff I watch much more closely, and I’m much more targeted in what I’m having the AI do.

That said, if I were gonna use this I’d actually review the code. I’m not recommending this guy’s stuff, but you can’t rule it out on the basis of ai assistance alone.

Probably followed AI spouting random bullshit and/or malware.

Called what? That you didn’t like their use of emojis?

What does that have to do with this? You didn’t call shit.

People were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser.

http://mud.arctic.org/ this one is still around.

But why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.

I’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.

Like a wireless router?

Can your neighborhood communicate when the Internet goes down like Iran?

To be a bit less flippant, the analogy isn’t far off.

Reading terminal instructions that you can easily copy/paste is a hell of a lot easier than watching a video and clicking around menus.

The issues that you’re having wouldn’t be any easier if they showed in a GUI. Yeah, things with GUI can be more polished, but that’s a result of the effort in that product, and not a result.of the GUI.

I sympathize with what I believe is your main point, that Linux people often are condescending and refuse to make things user friendly, whether that’s in a GUI or in the terminal. But the terminal itself shouldn’t be too daunting.

You’re one of the people who would rather watch a 13 minute YouTube video than read a paragraph.

Best language, suitable for all but the most low level stuff where you don’t want a garbage collector. For that use Rust.

C#, Rust, and maybe just a minimum amount of JavaScript, and I didn’t think you need anything else.

The worst part of C# is that sometimes Java devs sneak in, but that happens in every language.

You can just have things be out of scope. It’s really okay!

Thanks for the work you’ve put into this.

Yeah, nuance exists. Weird, I know.

How do I put this.

AI isn’t exactly the cause of the rise in the price of hardware. Only 1/6th of the purchased Nvidia cards are actually in data centers. Same for the memory.

We’re not using it.

What’s really drumming up all the prices is that the billionaires are convinced that AI is going to replace tons and tons of people. It’s not. It’s the insane corporate hype that’s doing all the damage.

It will replace some, sure. The same way the electric drill replaced carpenters. One electric drill does not replace one carpenter. That’s not how that works. Instead the carpenters can work a bit faster and their job is a bit easier. It’s worth buying and it’s worth using, but it doesn’t really replace a person. Accountants didn’t disappear as a profession when spreadsheets were invented.

There were books written in the 1980s about how household appliances raised the standard of cleanliness. Turns out people change clothes more when cleaning clothes doesn’t involve a washing board. And I don’t think Roombas replaced that many jobs either.

In particular, I think this is a thing that will happen for software development. I don’t think it’ll reduce the number of developers we need. I think the standards for development will just be higher. All the front end stuff in particular is going to get easier, and you won’t need as many frameworks. We’ll especially need just as many devs, if not more, in the short term. Someone’s going to have to fix the mess all these companies are going to make after they’ve fired half their devs and tried to just vibe code everything.

Yes, this is true, and I have preached this in the past, but…

They’re not treating it as a cache. Most of these apps don’t function with less ram.

It’s just inefficiencies stacked on inefficiencies. And yeah, they didn’t matter a ton at first, because our hardware was advancing fast enough to handle it. But at some point we should really go back and visit a lot of this stuff.

A 2014 computer should have gotten better at all the basic tasks that existed then, not worse.

The Windows 11 start menu being built on React is a good example. Insanity.

If you treat it as spicy search it works pretty great though.

If you can read it, they can read it. They have root on the company device.

Which is just as risky as instantly updating unless you’re really closely keeping an eye on which updates are security related.

Thank you!