If you don't have to think, then what you're building isn't really news worthy.
So, we have an inflation of worthless stuff being done.
Readit NewsI'm the main dev in a small IT company, my backlog is filled with requests, it's not always easy to prioritize and plan, some of those small projects are ignored for months, yet their business value are sound.
I've observed a new trend, managers who are frequently in the wait list started to use AI to generate small local apps. They still rely on my input when it's complex, or when implementation could generate risks or need resilience and would ask for small code reviews when they are unsure of the generated code quality.
The result is win win, I have more time for high value projects the executives want to prioritize, and managers can innovate faster almost on their own.
That sounds good enough for me.
makerdiety commented on How vibe coding is killing open source hackaday.com/2026/02/02/h... · Posted by u/msolujic
Open source and free software was the largest transfer of wealth in the form of techne freely from the craftspeople to the business people.
Knowing how to write a database could make one fabulously rich. Now the person who knows how to make and promote a simple crud app backed my MySql becomes the rich one, while the db people beg for donations.
Linux killed Sun/Solaris and SGI Irix
Developers have voluntarily moved further down in the chain of value - now just describing themselves as primarily a business liaison who can translate to code. All the computer whispering necessary to do all this is freely available and digestible for free.
LLMs are just the expected endpoint of this.
Beautiful. I like the displacement of human labor.
Intelligence is inherently not aligned with humanity, you mean? Why am I not shocked?
makerdiety commented on How to Build a Social Network as an Adult thomasunise.com/how-to-bu... · Posted by u/eeko_systems
The beginning was strong and promising. It definitely baited me in. And then it immediately crashed into regurgitated slop. No AI needed for that bland writing style. Not the style, I mean, but even the content of the message. Which contradicted its beginning. The title is misleading too.
How to waste time and for no purpose would've been a more accurate title.
Business is definitely not booming.