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Cars are becoming prohibitively expensive. Housing is becoming a luxury.
Even consumer products are becoming increasingly expensive.
Safety largely improved but not craftsmanship.
afaic it's a net positive. i've always been lazy on writing down/expressing my thoughts and gen ai feels exactly like the missing piece.
i'm able to "vibe write" my ideas into reality. the process is still messy but exciting.
i've never been this excited about the future since my childhood
They all seem to work remarkably well writing typescript or python but in my experience, they fall short when it comes to shell and more broadly dev ops
i've been writing code for my employers for the last 10years and i feel liberated
now i almost cheer when the product guys report bugs, mainly pre-llm legacy codebase i slice through like butter
well except on a few rare instances to be fair
i assume it can be counterproductive in the hands of an inexperienced dev?
with gemini 2.5 pro combined with a good https://docs.cursor.com/context/rules directory i've had consistently impressive quality code,
i spent quite some time crafting the .cursor directory though
i tried to be as exhaustive as possible in capturing the subtleties of our codebase and what our team considers good taste
We have two repos: Product (to anything relating to product) and Wiki (anything else, ranging from onboarding checklists, brief design documentation of key parts of the code ... to meta documentation)
Although our team is small by many standards (8) everyone likes it.
We spend a ridiculously small amount of time on meetings.
The obvious and great upside is the code/documentation integration which has virtually 0 context loss.
One downside however is indeed the difficulty of git branching to non-developers.
Once in while I find myself debugging a messed up version.
But I'm willing to pay that price.