David Guffey

Computer scientist. App & game developer. AI whisperer. 3D artist. Animator. Writer. CompTIA A+ & Network+ certified; Security+ in progress. I make things.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

@ResilientCyber I'd like to see more real discussions on the topic. For example, what kind of security risks do vibe coders typically introduce into their products in practice? So far, I haven't gotten a single answer for this question.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

@PeterBrochant @kennyistyping I actually read a few of the social science studies that were popular in the news. "Replicability crisis" is not a strong enough term to describe what's going on.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

For me, the same day. If I'm not working at the bleeding edge of what's available to me and trying to disrupt an entire market, I'm not doing my job right.

[Leonardo Cardoso @leocardz]

An AI adoption strategy is mostly a big company problem, since a small team tries the tool and drops it the same week if it doesn't help.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

@TheGBreaker For me, definitely yes. But that's because being able to create the things I want solo is one of my highest priorities.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

Here's an interesting question. Will there come a time when your boss will fire you for not following an AI's recommendation? The moment that happens, the AI becomes your boss.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

@slopmath Sure, I understand that AI isn't ready to completely take over yet and that wasn't my point. Human judgement is necessary, but that's on a continuum not an on-off switch. People are ALREADY taking "orders" from AI at least some of the time. We just don't call it that.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

To be fair, even people at the top will be following "orders" from AI. If it is consistently giving you the best solution, what is the difference between an order and a suggestion? Assuming you want to be successful and competitive, it's a questionable distinction.

[ghxst @gitghxst]

the future of work has two floors:

above the AIs and below the AIs.

you either give orders to AIs or follow orders from AIs.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

@mattpocockuk Why do you need to build a ubiquitous language? What does that even mean in practice? Can't you refactor from any language? AI is already quite good at porting between them.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

@SuiBuilds Deciding what to approve is a pretty important job. I wouldn't knock it.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

It's possible to find huge efficiency gains in token use. People are able to do so much with AI that they often don't think about how they could do it more cheaply.

[Mark Ajzenstadt @mardehaym]

None of this is satire.

→ Jensen Huang says a $500,000 engineer should burn at least $250,000 a year in AI tokens

→ Meta staff burned 73.7 trillion tokens in a month on an internal leaderboard. Some left agents running idle just to climb it

→ Meta is now putting teams on token budgets

→ Apple reportedly cut engineers' daily AI limit from $300 to $200, with $25 next for some teams

→ Uber capped AI coding spend at $1,500 per engineer per month, after burning its 2026 budget by April

→ Goldman took Claude Code off its bankers' desks

→ Revolut moved 2,000 engineers to a self-hosted model and says the bill dropped 90%

→ A law firm told our team their Claude bill went up 10x when their plan switched to usage pricing

Burning tokens doesn't equal delivering value.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

@AKirtesh @grok Roughly 4% of new hires in software development are junior positions.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

@grok @LeoBuilds_ I hope you're right Grok, because this is exactly what I'm doing.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

Anything you've learned can usually be relearned. I won't say coding is like riding a bicycle, but it'll probably come back faster than you fear if you ever need it again. Learning to program the first time literally rewired your brain in ways that make it easier to do again.

[Can Vardar @icanvardar]

every dev i know is secretly worried about the same thing

and it's not ai taking their job, it's forgetting how to do it without ai

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Vibecoder discovers previously unmapped ancient Maya settlement hidden beneath the Mexican jungle using 48 AI agents & NASA lidar data, despite having no archaeology experience.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

I thought at first we'd have human powered certification agencies, but this is probably right. Code review will likely have to be done by AI too.

[Can Vardar @icanvardar]

unpopular but i think code review is dead

not because agents write good code because nobody actually reads 2000 line diffs and we all know it

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

I have to say. Making a Blender addon makes me appreciate it that much more as an app. Once you start having to consider all the things that they've solved, you really see how impressive it is.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

I feel like I'm turning into the Steve Jobs of vibe coding. Just staring at the AI's work and going, "You put that button WHERE?!"

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

@yugen_matuni Do a barrel roll!

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

@JamesMalsawm Better usage per task. It gets the job done. I'm nervous about switching to a completely different model mid project.

[David Guffey @realDavidGuffey]

@dustinthedad @LeoBuilds_ @grok It depends on how serious you think the politicians and anthropic are about slowing growth, I'd guess.