FIrst they brought Oxygen back and now this. A very nostalgic trip down memory lane.

I’ve worked decades in the industry

That doesn’t mean anything. I have seen senior developers who built up “street cred” for decades fall into the vibecoding trap and deskill themselves rapidly.

The post that did it for me was some guy saying “I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing but I had claude port sonic cd to the Saturn”

These guys are everywhere. Someone on Vogons recently “ported” Terminator Future Shock from DOS to the Godot Engine.

The project is mostly useless and full of bugs. He also didn’t disclose that he used AI at all. I wonder what he expected - praise? This feels similar to the cheaters in speedrunning, they often shower in praise for years until they get caught.

I hope that projects like these finally die down when the big LLM companies go down the drain and they can’t run hundreds of agents in a datacentre without actually paying the money anymore.

That’s totally understandable. I still write software for myself, but for now I don’t put it on Github anymore. It’s just for me, to learn new tools, improve myself and have fun.

I don’t want to deal will all this nonsense. My contributions to OSS projects have extremely gone down, largely due to lack of motivation.

I’ll still write public code here and there, but only if there’s no sign of AI. For example, I contributed to Tracky this year, which is a PHP application for tracking movies and TV shows.