Thanks. I'll give them a watch.

It's because you get to the No True Scotsman -thing pretty fast.

If I use LLMs to code, say a Telegram bot that summarise the family calendars and current weather to a channel - someone will come in saying "but LLMs are shit because they can't handle this very esoteric hardware assembler I use EVERY DAY!!1"

Extremely doubtful.

This thread has hundreds of comments where people are screaming that everyone needs to learn AI coding.

If it was such an edge would they not otherwise keep quiet?

Unlikely. Programming in highly collaborative and efficiency is hard to measure. That creates incentives for programmers in competition to typically prioritize advertising their skills by demonstration over maintaining their secret edge. Be it at work or on the internet, if you help others by sharing your techniques you'll make them want to work with you and impress them with how smart you are. If you are keeping it all secret to maintain your edge, people will think of you as unhelpful and they won't know how smart you are, because it's very difficult to judge how difficult the things our accomplished were. The reason people don't stream themselves vibe coding is that's it's even less interesting to watch than regular coding.

It's not your edge anymore. It's AI's. And how is TFA any different?

Someone will always be idealistic enough to share. The fact that we do not see them now should raise a few eyebrows.

I must disagree. Sharing your edge is the wisest possible thing you can do on a societal level. For a slightly silly idea would it be better to have say, everyone doing guesswork knots for how to tie their shoes vs a single reliable 'rabbit ears' technique? Then you can see the benefits to having edges widely shared as a norm. That is the foundation of how society can learn.

Just like blockchain, smart contracts and web 3.0 are the future!

I see all the negative responses, but this seems true to me. I am old enough to remember the dot com days and could see the transformative effect of the Internet from miles away when I was a teenager. Yet many, many people refused to acknowledge that someday soon we would do things like credit card transactions online, or that people might buy shoes without trying them on first, etc.

You could say it is a lack of imagination or not connecting the dots, but I think there is a more human reason. A lot of people don't want the disruption and are happy with the status quo. I'm a software engineer so I know how problematic AI may be for my job, but I think anyone who looks at our current state and the recent improvements should be able to see the writing on the wall here.

I for one am more curious than afraid of AI, because I have always felt that writing code was the worst part of being a programmer. I am much happier building product or solving interesting problems than tracking down elusive bugs or refactoring old codebases.

So, programmers once had an edge in having their source closed, then fell for the open source evangelism and started sharing their code, which enabled the training of AI models, and now the next iteration of what was called programmers before and is now known as vibe coders has this notion of having an edge in having their chatbot prompts closed again?

Let's all just muse some and imagine what the next cycle of this wheel will look like.