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Comment by steveklabnik | Hacker News Reader

I recently attended an academic computer science conference. Several people I have looked up to my entire life were there, which also gives you an idea of their age (I am 40). They're all using AI. They are not mindless boosters about it, but clearly find it a useful tool in the toolbox.

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On the flip side my nephews who don’t really code (i try to teach them but they are kids with everything that comes with that) go around stating things like ‘do you use ai lol!? It’s so bad!!’.

The ai discourse is reasonably fine on HN but as soon as you go outside of actual developer circles keep in mind that my young nephews and their ilk are posting memes and criticisms without real understanding. I hope they’ll catch on soon but for now be prepared to see a whole lot of ‘Linus using vibe code Linux going to crash lololol’ type of posts in the non-developer communities for a while.

I see a lot of non-technical people who both criticize "AI" and use AI heavily. Same sort of "without real understanding" you're talking about. I think software developers tend to expect a lot more consistency in people than they actually have. Software developers included, which is kind of ironic.

> be prepared to see a whole lot of ‘Linus using vibe code Linux going to crash lololol’ type of posts

I mean, we see a lot of this in the developer community as well, already.

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