Yes. I’m an AI skeptic. And I’m quiet. Because AI is the single best thing that ever happened to my consulting business.
Vibe coding generates an infinite stream of „companies“ with proven business model and market fit and obviously unmaintainable, buggy, and impossible to scale software. But once there’s profits and their life depends on that pile of vibe-coded AI vomit continuing to work, they are happy to pay through the nose for a rewrite by experienced human coders. AI might ruin the job market for beginners, but the market for experts is exploding.
So why would I loudly complain about AI? It’s buggy as hell, but from my point of view, that’s a major upside.
Isn't that the standard startup receipe - the hardest part is supposed to be finding a working concept and customers, after which you can get funding to implement it properly?
The Chinese symbol for disaster is made by combining the symbols for danger, and oportunity.
Sure, but only until Claude Opus 6
Yes! Just pile on the tech debt now, none of it matters once AGI comes! And that's any day now, right? ...right?
Maybe, I'm just having fun reducing entropy locally in my codebase, while it gets ejected as heat in some data center on the otherside of the planet.