the more often i talk about and think about it, the more it dawns on me just how extraordinarily useless llms are. i have already said that i disenjoy them for their lack of being a real tool: you arent guaranteed you can keep using them, you cant repair them, you cant change them, their abilities are static and kind of bad. furthermore they replace my skills instead of complementing them: if i code with an llm for a year, i wont be good at coding by myself anymore. i do not want to lose my skills, i do not want to be dependent on something that can be taken away at any moment or made prohibitively expensive.

if i started embracing vibe coding, did it for a good year or so, only to discover anthropic jacked up the pricing beyond my abilities to pay, i am left in a situation where my own skills have degraded and "my" tool was taken away. as a result, i then cannot code anymore or have to relearn some of it.

recently however i have realized it is not just a bad deal in the skills sense and such, it is so much worse; it is a bad deal even if you are thinking within the profit motive. getting llm code to a working state requires so much babysitting (and thus many prompts) that it consumes about as much money as an actual dev (though a pretty low wage one admittedly) would; And I Would Still Have To Babysit It! so in the end a company replacing 2 devs with 1 dev + 1 AI ends up paying almost the same amount of money, or negiligibly less for the time being (prices Will rise though), while getting much worse code in the process.

the scam does not just apply to individuals, it applies to companies too. there is noone who actually benefits from this shit, because even the companies being paid for the llms are not sustainable as a result of their horrific power consumption. it just does not work out in any way!

this is not even mentioning the effect that the droppings of vibe coders have on the software ecosystem. the amount of critical bugs is rising sharply as, for some reason, half the software ecosystem seems hell-bent on vibe coding even critical system components like systemd. and i still havent mentioned the environmental burden and ethics yet, because if i were to start doing that i would probably end up in a situation where the thoughts on my screen exude such a bad smell i would barf on my keyboard.