Senior engineer, 10+ yrs. Cursor & Lovable get to 70%. The last 30% — auth, payments, deploys, the wiring AI skips — is where it breaks. I made an agent ↓
@gregisenberg I would suggest that dashboards “on the fly” are still alive. Yes, agents represent the new method to “dashboard,” yet a user interface is still required when people wish to interact.
If a teammate passes and the ball touches an opponent before reaching the offside player, that touch is not a "deliberate play" by the opponent (it's a deflection/rebound off a player attempting to intercept). So the offside player does not become onside — the offside offense stands, and the goal is disallowed.
The offside player would only be let off if the opponent had “deliberately played” the ball (a controlled action), which a simple deflection is not.
In the AI era, the bottleneck isn’t answers—it’s knowing which questions to ask.
And you can’t ask a great question about something you’ve never lived. Human experience is what tells you where to point the machine.
Specialization won’t die. It’ll become the moat.
It is not that ideas are inherently good or bad, but rather whether they are true or not. Concepts of good and bad can be personal preferences; an idea can be considered “bad” yet still be truthful, and vice versa. The real question is how to determine whether an idea is true. Perhaps this is the realm of epistemology. Supernatural criteria may also play a role—something that exists beyond space, time, and matter. Perhaps the very force that created this reality could reveal which ideas are true.
@pmitu I'm not sure about “the code doesn't really matter”. Developing anything valuable and comprehensive is still pretty cumbersome, even with AI assistance, despite my 10+ years of experience in software development.
Vibe-coding lesson: plan thoroughly before committing a single line.
Ask the LLM what it understands. Then ask again, differently. Make it restate the plan back to you.
The time you spend aligning upfront saves hours of untangling generated code later.