I came here exactly to point out what I'm glad to see is 10. "Free as in puppies" is a wonderful way to put it.

Every time I open linkedin I'm scared of how many big heads have taken the wrong lesson that coding almost free == free engineering. So many bait posts asking engineers why they would need to pay them any longer, or being glad they're generating millions of lines a month....this is going to end badly.

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mxmlnkn 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 10. Code is cheap, but maintenance, support, and security aren’t.

I also keep circling around this point. So many software repositories in the AI space seem to follow a publish and forget pattern. If you simply can show that you have the patience to maintain a project, ideally with manual intervention instead of a fully autonomous AI, then you already have an outstanding project.

	▲	dickeeT 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		yeah, if a project is purely vibe coded, it tend to need to be rewritten at some point of time

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scorpioxy 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I had a business owner tell me that they don't need to hire juniors anymore because claude can do all of that work for them. This was not a software shop so it's not even about writing code but I also thought that was something that will bite in the near future. A business that is not investing in juniors is a business that is not investing in the future.

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pjc50 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The role of AI in non-software shops is going to be interesting. To a great extent it's not competing with devs, it's competing with Excel. However bad a system your AI can produce, it can't compare to the workflows that a group of non-techies armed only with Office can produce.

On the other hand, like giving a supercar to a teenager, this just enables them to get into trouble faster.

(the "my vibe coded app deleted prod!" stories are funny schadenfreude when they happen to SV startups, whose whole business is pretending to know better. When this happens to a small business who've suddenly lost all their finanacials and now maybe will lose their house, it's a tragedy. And this can happen on a much larger, not AI-related scale, like Jaguar Land Rover: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9pdld4y81o )

	▲	chasd00 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> The role of AI in non-software shops is going to be interesting I have friend in west Texas who does industrial electrical gear sales (like those giant spools of cable you see on tractor trailers). He’s 110% good old boy Texan but has adopted and loves AI. He says it’s been a huge help pulling quotes together and other tasks. Coincidentally he lives in Abilene where one of the stargate campuses are going. Btw, the scale of what’s being built in Abilene is like nothing I’ve ever seen.
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2ndorderthought 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LinkedIn is a circle of hell even dante couldn't imagine.

	▲	torben-friis 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed, but a worrying amount of managers and leaders spend time there for reasons I never fully understood, so it offers a glimpse into their worldview. The issue is that when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

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hacker_homie 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a repeat of paying devs by SLC(source line of code).