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@DeryaTR_ Changes are accelerating at rapid pace but we humans are not equipped to adopt this change that’s happening so fast

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@petergyang Well thought planning and prompt decomposition will make AI to develop better and save your time a lot

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@adamdotdev You are not a bot

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@Prathkum Another core skill that’s need of the hour is what to keep from AI and what to reject from AI

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The stuff that used to separate senior devs from juniors was often just knowing where the weird config files go and which magic strings make the framework happy. That knowledge took years to build and mass of it is now handled in seconds. What's left is the part that was always supposed to matter. Knowing why you're building something, how to structure it so it doesn't collapse in six months, and when to push back on requirements that don't make sense. The frameworks were never the point. They were just the tax you paid to ship.

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The product to model feedback loop is the most important thing to improvise the models output . OpenAI and Anthropic can watch how people actually use their tools and tune the next version around that.

Startups building on top of their APIs are flying blind in comparison. Open models help but they're only half the picture. You also need the infrastructure to actually run experiments, collect feedback, and retrain. That's the part that's still expensive and hard to access. Whoever cracks that for smaller teams unlocks a lot of competition.

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Writing about AI right now is like trying to document a moving train from inside the train. Something that felt like a breakthrough in October is table stakes by December. And the audience keeps shifting too. Same post can get everyone knows this and this changed how I think in the same thread. Only way I've found to deal with it is to write anyway and accept that timing will never be perfect.

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@eliana_jordan If you know how to use these AI tools well no one will develop the apps traditional way

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@zhenthebuilder @Replit Definitely shipping products became easy with all these tools in hand , but to find users to these apps you still need to go the conventional route, going forward success will not be measured by how many apps you shipped rather what’s the MRR from these apps

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@rasbt Definitely if you are a coder and have coding background you will have an edge by using LLMs to ship applications faster, the advantage one will have is the developer knows what code to keep and what to reject which is a key skill needed during vibe coding era

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@DanielMiessler Definitely no doubt opus 4.5 is ahead of other models in terms of it’s quality and performance

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With Vibe Coding ideas to reality cycle has been shortened, what gives an edge is to test these ideas quicker than before earlier it would take 1-2 months to develop a MVP and get users feedback, which can be done now in less than a day, but there are inherent risks with this when you ship a product without knowing what is written in the code, if an idea takes off vibe coders should understand or setup a team to understand what’s written and enhance them if needed, this approach will help to scale and adopt amongst users

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The key reasoning and thinking skill one needs to develop during AI era is what to keep and what to reject.

Earlier we has to think and write logic to solve a problem, now AI does that for you , all you need to do is review if it’s efficient, if not iterate with AI for better output, if one picks up this skill your job is secured

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Same tools, wildly different outcomes. The gap isn't access anymore. It's knowing what to build, how to break problems down, and when to step in versus let the agent run.

People who've shipped things before know where projects go wrong. That context makes them better at steering AI than someone who's never built anything end to end.

The tools amplify whatever skills you already have. They don't replace the judgment.

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There's real demand and real hype at the same time. Businesses want AI but most are stuck on where to start.

The gap between wanting to use it and actually getting value from it is where most of the confusion lives.

Not a bubble in the sense that demand is fake. But definitely inflated expectations about how fast results show up. The companies figuring out practical implementation will do fine. The ones waiting for magic won't.

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Depends what you're doing. For quick scripts and data work, yeah, AI handles Python well enough that writing it yourself feels slow.

But production code with edge cases, security concerns, integrations with existing systems? Still need to read and understand every line.

AI writes Python fast. Knowing whether that Python should go to production is a different skill entirely.

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The learning curve is steeper than people expect because the skill isn't just prompting. It's knowing when to trust the output, when to push back, and when to step in and do it yourself. That takes multiple iterations.

Most people give up before they've built enough context to know what good looks like. Same as any tool really. The ones who stick with it past the frustration phase end up way faster than they were before.

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You need enough understanding to ask the right questions and catch when the answer is wrong.

I speeds up the loop but doesn't replace knowing what you're building.

The people treating it like magic end up debugging for hours because they copy paste blindly without understanding it.

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Both matter depending on what you're working on.

A weekend project that solves your own problem doesn't need a system. A product with users and uptime requirements does.

The skill is knowing which mode you're in. Problems start when people vibe code something that needed engineering, or over-engineer something that just needed to ship.

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Execution was always the bottleneck.

Not writing the code, but knowing what to build, when to ship, and what to ignore. The best funded startups with the best engineers still failed when they built the wrong thing really well.

AI makes code cheaper but doesn't fix bad judgment. If anything it just speeds up how fast you can run in the wrong direction.