Lakshmi Narasimhan
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#Ai-Coding

Will Vibe Coding Replace Developers? COBOL Already Tried.

Last month I spent about forty minutes arguing with Claude Code about a rate limiter. Not debugging a rate limiter. Not implementing one. Arguing. I had typed “add a usage limit to the free tier” and gotten back something that technically worked — it counted things and stopped you when you hit the limit — but was also completely wrong in about six different ways that I hadn’t specified because I hadn’t thought to specify them.

10 Ways to Waste Time and Money with AI Agents: A Field Guide to Self-Sabotage

Money spent is obvious—we burn through tokens like a hedge fund manager through investor capital, exhausting our weekly quotas by Tuesday. Time, however, is subtle and invisible. Something I call the Anti-AI Paradox: that creeping realization that you could have hand-coded the entire feature in half the time it took to “collaborate” with your AI assistant. Let me save you some grief. 1. Being Super Vague AI models are getting smarter by the day. But they can’t read tea leaves like some digital oracle you summoned from Silicon Valley. “My ‘Schedule’ button isn’t scheduling the post.” Sure, Einstein. I can see that. Revolutionary observation.