alt Hacker NewsI keep hearing about this "when things break" argument, but things broke all the time with humans writing code too, if anything it feels like it's getting patched faster.
Look I loved our field, functional programming, etc. But the field as we knew it is dead, and if you think that your work is anything but providing new tests/edge cases and occasionally providing some guidance, you're in denial.
I'm thinking scbench.ai, and the fact that future token costs may become more prohibitive to just use it for everything.
For me, the middle ground is review and keeping a mental model, not never using LLMs. The "Anthropic are our friends and will never fuck us over!" seems pretty naive.
There are ultimately a lot of unknowns at the moment, and it is simply too soon to know if giving up understanding your code base is sensible. People (influencers) have only been saying not to bother reviewing for about a month.
Also, so many vibe coders don't seem to know that you need to keep third party elements patched.