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>>tablet+(OP)
I like Thomas, but I find his arguments include the same fundamental mistake I see made elsewhere. He acknowledged that the tools need an expert to use properly, and as he illustrated, he refined his expertise over many years. He is of the first and last generation of experienced programmers who learned without LLM assistance. How is someone just coming out of school going to get the encouragement and space to independently develop the experience they need to break out of the "vibe coding" phase? I can almost anticipate an interjection along the lines of "well we used to build everything with our hands and now we have tools etc, it's just different" but this is an order of magnitude different. This is asking a robot to design and assemble a shed for you, and you never even see the saw, nails, and hammer being used, let alone understand enough about how the different materials interact to get much more than a "vibe" for how much weight the roof might support.

>>parado+4u
> get the encouragement and space to independently develop the experience they need to break out of the "vibe coding" phase?

I wonder this too, as someone who is entirely self-taught, when I started escaping “tutorial hell” was the hardest part of the journey, and took quite a bit of both encouragement and sheer willpower. Not sure I would have ever went beyond that if I had LLMs.

I worry for Juniors, and either we’ll need to find a way to mentor them past the vibe coding phase, or we hope that AI gets good enough before we all retire.

>>theweb+Nz
There will always be people that manage to get into the guts of something.

All AI is going to do is create a new class of programmer, such that the people who know the details will end up being more valuable.