I don't think AI is really fixing business problems, though. I think it's only fixing developer problems. And unfortunately nobody really cares about that except for developers.
I just find it sad that instead of focusing on improving how we build things and reducing the need for so much mindless, tedious, repetious, mechanical work, we're content to just build bad things faster with AI and call it a win.
> I just find it sad that instead of focusing on improving how we build things and reducing the need for so much mindless, tedious, repetious, mechanical work, we're content to just build bad things faster with AI and call it a win.
The AI is doing precisely that: reducing the mindless, tedious, repetitious, mechanical work. And what "vibe coding" wants you to embrace is treating high-level code as if it were compiled assembly: an implementation detail you never want to look at or care about if you can help it.
Yes, in some sense AI isn't fixing anything, because all that "mindless, tedious, repetitious, mechanical" code still exists, it's just autogenerated. I too wish we could've first eliminated the need for that entirely. But we didn't, because most programmers and the industry at large still don't understand where the problem is in the first place. They can't see we've long reached Pareto frontier in our programming languages, that we're being limited by the default paradigm of working directly on plaintext codebase that's a single source of truth.
So yeah, in this sense, LLMs aren't fixing anything - they're just an abstraction layer on top of our exhausted coding paradigm.
I don't think AI is really fixing business problems, though. I think it's only fixing developer problems. And unfortunately nobody really cares about that except for developers.
I just find it sad that instead of focusing on improving how we build things and reducing the need for so much mindless, tedious, repetious, mechanical work, we're content to just build bad things faster with AI and call it a win.