moved from piefed.social/u/rozodru due to qutebrowser issues.
yeah it was fine to play games on or see neat websites but it was absolute garbage to build and maintain with.
fresh out of college one of my first jobs was a web master for an ad agency whose site was purely built in flash/actionscript. It was the absolute worst to update. I hated it. I was one of those that celebrated flash and actionscripts downfall.
yes I use DOOM Emacs and will never use another editor. It’s my IDE, my Email Client, my document writer, my File Manager, and my Terminal. don’t need anything else.
Nano or as I like to call it “The Sudo Editor”
get good at code reviewing and, unfortunately, spend time on linkedin. subscribe to tech bros in your area and when they start posting their usual slop and AI bullshit make comments calling them out. Managers and owners of other companies, especially startups, will see this and contact you for help. Because all these startups and small tech companies are ALL following the tech bros in linkedin and when they read your comments calling said tech bro an idiot, why whatever their pushing won’t work and how it’s going to hurt businesses in the long run they’ll want to get in touch with you to fix/tell them what they’ve done wrong to avoid the stuff you were calling tech bro out on.
I mean it’s so damn simple. None of these companies are going to advertise or actively look for help/a position to fix their stuff because they’re either embarrassed they fucked up or they don’t want their investors finding out they fucked up. So they call in me, the cleaner, like Harvey Keitel from Pulp Fiction.
I was a freelance/contract dev that over a year ago transitioned to a sort of code review for AI/LLMs type deal with companies. I make more money doing this than dev work. Essentially I review the slop that their vibe coders churn out and tell them how it’s not going to work and everything that’s wrong with it and then 9 times out of 10 suggest a complete rebuild without utilizing AI.
that’s it. that’s all I’m doing now. I have so much more free time and I’m making way more than I was previously. Majority of my new clients come from linkedin via tech bro posts.
This really shouldn’t be recent news to anyone. it’s been like this since day one of vibe coding. It’s all exploitable, none of it scales, and the “vibe coders” have zero clue how any of it works when it comes out the other end of the AI. none of them. and anyone that tells you otherwise is lying.
It’s not a “growing blind spot” it’s a blind spot that has always been there. And it happens with all companies even large ones like Amazon. look what happened with the AWS outages. hell you can even go on youtube and watch people who work at Amazon and you’ll quickly realize these kids have no idea what the hell they’re doing. I’ve followed one guy for the past year who documents his on calls with Amazon and this kid hasn’t learned a single thing. He doesn’t know what he’s doing but will proudly tout how Amazon “helps” those that are laid off. The kid still gets tickets at 1am and has no clue how to fix the stuff and just hands it off to another team in the morning. he’s been doing this for over a year!
So of course this stuff is going to go unchecked because the ones who are supposed to monitor it don’t know what they’re doing.
Canada also opened one alongside France.
After reading the interview (great job btw) I can see he’s utilizing Claude Code in the correct way. As someone whose contracting day job is to code review and report on the various fuck ups companies make utilizing AI him stating it’s more used as a sort of rubber duck or peer programming is honestly, like it or not, the correct way to utilize these tools.
Now him stating that he hopes Anthropic won’t feed on what he’s produced…I wouldn’t bet on it bud. your code base has already been utilized.