• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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          And I got a real job that I will be doing for longer than a week, so the the money has to justify me spending my rare free time.

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          Is that a number you can actually charge? Because if so, there’s some prices I’m gonna have to raise.

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            You can charge it, but that doesn’t mean anyone’s gonna pay it. Highly depends on your specific market and skillset.

            At the very least, it’s definitely useful as a “fuck you” price.

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            That number is at the high end of what I usually see for consulting work. The high hourly rate has to cover all of the HR and accounting overhead, invoicing, marketing, business development, and the opportunity cost of short term engagement vs. long term engagements.

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        They try to vibe code it, eventually get bored and give up. It’s win win (for AI companies and for programmers) in this case.

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      AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

      At least my million dollar ideas friends wasting AI’s time with the useless crap, instead of ruining a perfectly nice meal conversation with me.

      Of course, I know it is only buying me a few months. The “quick fix to my AI app” requests are gathering on the horizon.

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    They still ask you why their garbage doesn’t work or how to run a PDF.
    I’m not even a computer programmer, I do industrial automation!

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      One of them looks like a butthole, so it must be ai tools

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    I still think no-code tools are better suited for building prototypes without requiring development knowledge in order to prove your idea. LLMs just added a complicated extra-step.

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      I think the point is, the kind of people who have “million dollar ideas” are now using LLMs instead of pestering real programmers.

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      But these aren’t just any apps, these are shitty half-assed apsps generated from a slurry of unrelated mediocre code scraped from the corners of the web.

      I am not looking forward to next year when every new aspect of any service I use online will have an 80% chance to be a half-assed shit slurry.

      Today’s 65% chance was already time consuming and exhausting.

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    am i wrong or is this a terrible meme format for what it’s trying to say?

    edit: it was the former

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      I was initially confused as well, but I do think the meme format matches.

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        idk the soldier is supposed to be a negation/protection rather than providing/helping with something.

        this seems more appropriate for the mercy meme or something.

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          Vibe-coding is absolutely protecting real programmers from the constant bombardment of wannabe entrepreneurs that just need a tech person to write their idea.

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          I’d argue it is protecting programmers. Previously, people would waste programmers’ time with poorly concepted/uncreative app ideas. But now people are going “oh I can do that on my own”, and wasting their own time with AI vibe coding.

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            The old “I have this great idea for an app! If you build it for me, you can have 10% of the profits!”.

            And then you ask for the idea, and at first they don’t want to give it away with your agreement, and in the end it turns out to be either whatsapp of amazon.