I know a lot of people are freaking out because tools like Claude Code and friends are able to write, reason about and modify code. This has business leaders absolutely salivating at the possibility of getting rid of a huge chunk of their bulky, expensive … human … capital. However, SOTA is still not going to fully replace anyone.

However I find my problem, specifically, is that I don’t know of any need I’m unable to fulfill that I would somehow need vibe coding to accomplish. I’ve had AI tools look at code I’ve written to suggest improvements or fix issues I was having with it. I just don’t know about having one code a full app that solves a need that I have. One that the myraid of other apps or tools don’t. Sure, that means I need to spend time learning about and utilizing the tools I have, but that seems like a better use of my time than wasting untold hours of datacenter time, and all the ills that go with it, to code up something that might barely be considered a 1.0 tool.

Granted, I’m not a developer. I don’t spend time trying to suss out details of marketing and management requests into something that works as envisioned, so I guess I’m not really the demographic. But what kind of tools are people building with these systems that is really pushing the needle? Is this really sustainable? What happens when people inevitably abandon these projects? I feel like these are terrible loops to be stuck in, recreating things, poorly, abandoning them, and then doing it all over again.

Am I missing something?

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