As a freelance dev it’s not quite as bad now but it’s insane to see that some of my clients think I got replaced by a machine now only to show me a buggy vibe coded mess of an app that is poorly designed and works half the time at best. I like some of the LLM tools but it’s important to understand their abilities and limitations especially in regards to future capabilities as there are hard limits to how capable they can become.

Way too many people think the tools are smart because they can „talk“ and these same people do not understand any of the underlying tech.

Some of my clients send ChatGPT written instructions now that are missing half the context of what I‘m actually doing.

In Germany too and I remember how upsetting it was to me from the beginning. There were third party messengers that supported established (at the time) services like ICQ or live messenger but people got onto the hot new thing because it’s so much like SMS.

„Many of you will be laid off but that’s a sacrifice I‘m willing to make“