Every time I see a vibe coder say something along the lines of "if you haven't used these tools over the past five minutes, you don't know what they're capable of, because everything's different now!" I get a little bit perplexed.
You do know that we can see the output without using it ourselves, right? Some of us are still reviewing pull requests and reading through code repositories, y’know?
Replying to @baldur@toot.cafe
@baldur "If you haven't tried it, how can you know" is one of those takes that make me reconsider the sanity of the humanity.
Deducing something is bad before trying is one of the main purposes of the brain.
Replying to @petrikas@mastodon.online
Been a trope in the AI booster circle for a while.
If LLM coding assistants aren't working for you, you have to be doing it wrong, you must be using an outdated model or you aren't prompting it correctly.
Its all your fault!
And just you wait in 1, 3 or 6 months from now these things will be soooo good it'll be transcendental
From Thomas Ptacek's article "My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts", Published June 2025
"First, we need to get on the same page. If you were trying and failing to use an LLM for code 6 months ago †, you’re not doing what most serious LLM-assisted coders are doing."