AI Coding Is Crazy Yo...

[Adam M]

I'm not a coder. I'm just interested in the field. 

Recently the rise of "agentic AI" has created the possibility of feeding and AI stupid simple prompts... and having it create entire websites or applications within minutes or hours depending on the complexity.

It's really insane and is such a juicy moral-ethical, spiritual debate to be had.

Here is what I'm seeing so far:

Coding With Claude Requires Basically No-Effort:
 

this guy, Anrej Karpathy is one of the leading AI coders and helped build ChatGPT.

The way he talks to and uses his AI agents are wild. Speaking in super simple language like "build the thing" and having Claude figure out the rest. It's actually insane.

His recent blog post explains how he made this YouTube clone called HackerTube.org that basically just feeds people the exact videos that are in the Hacker niche of interest.

It's really cool, honestly, and the website functions pretty flawlessly from my limited testing.

[imagine being able to ask Claude to code your own website (that actually works this well) within a few hours. WTF?]

 

Here's a pretty good demonstration of how it might look to code something with Claude:

it's a bit of a long video but it basically explains and demonstrates how Claude coded this app that he's making (within 6 hours).

4:53 is the timestamp.

 

The Moral Philosophical Implications:

Is this even worth it? 
 

This video explains the depression and loss of purpose that comes from someone who actually really enjoys coding and refused to use AI in his process because it takes away from the artistry and enjoyment of the craft.

I don't know?

I made a short little blog post that explains a little bit of the philosophical and moral implications that I have on this overall idea, it's a short read, I hope you don't mind me sharing.

Anyways, what to make of all this?

Things are changing quickly in the world of technology and coding... and the question is...

Who's gonna power all those damn GPU's 😂😂😂

Anyways, peace and love, all

Would love to know what you think about this!

Sincerely,
Adam ❤️

[Leo Gura]

AI is good for making things that are cookie-cutter.

[integral]

@Adam M i worked as a developer most of my life, i have a degree is software engineering.

Claude Opus 5.5 is better then 99.9% of software developers and has replaced all coders.

No one writes code anymore, but they do review code and make sure the AI is not messing up in larger software.

You are now a software engineer that can build absolutely anything 10x faster then someone of 3 years ago.

It struggles with design so first give it images of really nice design you want then let it cook. 

Edited 17 hours ago by integral

[integral]

20 hours ago, Adam M said:

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The Moral Philosophical Implications:

Is this even worth it? 
 

This video explains the depression and loss of purpose that comes from someone who actually really enjoys coding and refused to use AI in his process because it takes away from the artistry and enjoyment of the craft.

I fully understand what he's saying because I've experienced the same thing. The problem is you can still get the AI to stress test a system in the code far beyond any normal human can do it and they're really, really good at it. So if you know what you're doing, the AI is still a better workflow than any human workflow.

It's a misconception that humans before AI were not writing SLOP. Humans were already writing SLOP code before ai.

Edited 17 hours ago by integral

[integral]

It can also make animated youtube videos.

[pablo_aka_god]

I wonder if it's possible to get the same joy we got from coding from building powerful AI systems.

Maybe it's the new coding and it can be as much as a craft as coding manually?

 

 

[Adam M]

7 hours ago, integral said:

@Adam M i worked as a developer most of my life, i have a degree is software engineering.

Claude Opus 5.5 is better then 99.9% of software developers and has replaced all coders.

No one writes code anymore, but they do review code and make sure the AI is not messing up in larger software.

You are now a software engineer that can build absolutely anything 10x faster then someone of 3 years ago.

It struggles with design so first give it images of really nice design you want then let it cook. 

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, this makes sense and this is what I’m seeing, there’s no question that the world of coding and development is changed forever.

 

The greater philosophical question is how far do we take it? Do we allow AI to be able to improve upon itself? Even many of the leading AI heads like Sam Altman are saying that they may lose control of AI once it begins to improve upon itself. It’s scary, and I think we need more regulation, but I don’t see it happening in the near future.

 

You’re definitely right about the coding thing, and I’m wanting to get into vibe coding myself, even as someone with 0 tech experience, just as a fun hobby, haha. 😂

[Jirh]

I think AI is great for scaffolding.

Coating and polishing and finishing and maintaining a product must be done by hand. Whether that hand uses AI or not does not matter. What matters is that it has experience and understanding.

Edited 2 hours ago by Jirh