Roddy Bee

Crafting web-sites for 20+ years, and plan to do so in future. In love with Coldfusion, Python, PHP, databases. Occasionally trying to teach. #SaveUkraine

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

@GergelyOrosz One can skip code review now and could've skip code review before AI. Nothing has changed. Want to fast-forward from idea to production - cut corners, do not code review, skip tests, ignore user feedback. Want to build something you can put your name on it - do the opposite.

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

This.

[Lucas @rvcas]

I don’t use loops, skills, fancy orchestration, plugins or anything like that. I raw dog the agent with its default harness, I read the code, and I’m shipping more than ever to production for real projects used by real people. Sometimes if it’s a low risk part of the application I might skip reading the code but only sometimes. I think most are either lying about the amount of value they are creating or just having fun while understanding they aren’t creating value but failing to distinguish that to their audience.

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

@mark_slapinski Got a follower

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

@jackcoder0 How do we call something that has zero value, zero usage, and zero demand, but it piles up in big quantities? It is called trash.

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

Firing developers because "AI makes a single developer produce 100x" is a management's admission of incompetence. Didn't you planned your business to grow? Didn't you laid out new products to build and ship? You now have the leverage, a booster engine, so use it, don't downscale.

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

Congrats @ElinaSvitolina with #Rome

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

@svpino Using Junie within IDEA and it rocks. I don't know why this agent is not getting any attention, everyone seem to be too busy with their CLI and terminals.

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

@IntCyberDigest What is their hiring process? Did they ask to invert a binary tree, solve leetcode, or why manholes are round? How many stages of interview they have? Did candidates live coded while their managers watched?

[kitze @thekitze]

i asked gpt-image-2 to 90s-maxxx our boring ass kitchen and i just want to ask WHERE DID WE GO WRONG AS HUMANS WE USED TO HAVE IT ALL

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

After "firing" junior developers, AI fearmongers now attacking mid level developers. This madness has to stop, but amount of marketing money pushing AI hysteria is so huge, so the cannot stop.

[Klaas @forgebitz]

having mid developers is now going to slow your company down

before a mid developer would do mid tasks like crud monkey work, forms, etc, which is fine, that needed to be done

now you have a mid developer being able to generate massive amounts of slop code, but they don't know it's slop, so the better/senior devs need to review the slop

creating a bottleneck of vibe coded slop

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

"With AI we finally going to rewrite that legacy app". That's a delusion. What stopped you before AI? With access to overseas developer pool, cost of labor was not a blocking factor. Legacy code was shaped into form by thousands of small business decisions, you cannot recreate it

[pedram.md @pdrmnvd]

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

All of a sudden, popular X channels and personalities, even non-technical athletes and political journalists, started to post AI endorsement post and "predictions" on how we all gonna lose jobs. I'm telling you people, amount of marketing money poured into AI promotion is insane

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

Omarchy looks insanely good on 6 y.o. Dell XPS with 4K screen. Intel Core i5-8365U 8GB but running smooth like butter.

[DHH @dhh]

We now have a version of Omarchy where everything is working out-of-the-box with the new Dell XPS Panther Lake machine! Webcam, sound, display refresh. Huge thanks to @dell and @intel for this collaboration! Excited to get this released in time for first customer machines 🤘

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

Live coding and algorithms interviews are seen to become obsolete and useless. To me, they always were, as engineering is something opposite to cramming. With AI-assisted coding going mainstream, remembering how to transpose a graph will be no more than academic party trick.

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

@steveruizok Python compiler runs on calculator, is free, Linux is free, can be hosted on any coffeemaker with internet access. Praised "Plain English" compiler costs billions to build, millions to run and is owned by some rich guys in California. Math is brutal.

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

Silicon Valley bubble is slow to realize that they are a breadcrumb of world's IT pie and even not the most important part. Really important part of IT is running banking, insurance, railways, nuclear plants. Like stars hold a tiny bit of universe's mass vs. piles of dark matter.

[John Crickett @johncrickett]

12 months ago I said this wouldn't age well. So let's check in.

AI writing 90% of code? We're not there. Not even close.

Sure, there are a few bubbles where adoption is high, in the AI companies themselves and across Silicon Valley. The rest of the world, not yet.

Here's what I actually see across the industry:

→ Some developers don't use AI at all.
→ Many use autocomplete, and that's it.
→ A good chunk use chat interfaces as a smarter search engine.
→ Around 20% are using agents, and mostly just for writing tests.
→ Around 5% are heavily using AI.

Personally I use it a lot. It's genuinely useful for the work I do. I'm in the 5%. But "essentially all the code" by now? That's not the reality most software engineers are living in.

The gap between what AI leaders predict and what practitioners experience on the ground is still vast.

That doesn’t mean it’s not useful. That doesn’t mean it’s not here to stay. It's just a reminder that timelines from the top of the hype curve tend to compress years of messy, uneven adoption into a single clean narrative.

Or as William Gibson put it so well: “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”

Which group are you in?

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

Coding with AI agent is like playing bowling with a hockey stick. You have to carefully guide the ball toward pins, you have to have guardrails to avoid gutter... And then probably you can get a perfect 300 game, but since you were walking the lane, it is a foul.

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

"Astroturf campaign" - that's probably the best summary of AI posting craze here. "AI CEOs", "running dozens of agents" - doing what? - "Skill issue". Marketing push become more evident every day. Especially how "everyone abandoned" Claude when Anthropic refused DoD contract.

[Pitfall Harry @JKD_ff]

@svpino Love the responses in these threads. All the same formulaic responses, mostly different versions of "you're prompting it wrong"

This astroturf campaign must be costing these companies a fortune.

[Roddy Bee @rodyonbykov]

@krzyzanowskim Big things not built by a single developer. Most vibe coded thingys are no more than school science fair projects, like a model of eputing volcano with smoke and lights. Impressive but no practical value. Competing teams within big organisation tend to level overall code quality.