The loop on getting slop out to market quick in order to get feedback is already flawed. If you don't understand the problems of your customers well enough to come up with a coherent vision for how to solve them you shouldn't be the one doing the product design or making high level business decisions in the first place.
There's a place for prototyping and experimental features but now agile has cultivated extreme learned helplessness and everything is an A/B test because there's no longer any ability to judge whether something is good or bad based on a holistic vision.
Yep humans and civilization are subject to the same model-collapse phenomenon as they interact more with LLMs, but engineering knowledge has always been held by a small minority with certain personality characteristics. Maybe the minority will get smaller but I'm not sure it will completely disappear. There's always people like yourself building archives.
> What exactly is so fundamentally difficult in 2026 that someone with years of experience can’t learn?
It's having the experience to point out all the issues in the generated code that's the issue. The interns they hired won't have the experience to push back and slow the slop machine down.
That shouldn't apply to tech where there's generally always more market to capture and competitors looking to offer a better product and take your market share.
No, and nobody is going to find it when the guy from a third world village using a fake name that they hired to vibecode features puts a bitcoin miner in one of his daily 10k line agentic PRs.
It's more that the young people are more likely to go along with the hype because they aren't experienced enough to know the limitations of LLMs (their baseline skill level is too low to compare), they get to feel like they are more capable than they actually are, or they are not in a financial position to push back.
Young people today have grown up in a low trust society and have a totally different mindset. They have no qualms with figuring out how to extract as much as possible from their employer while providing as little value as they can. They will fake their competence as long as possible using LLMs and then go do it again somewhere else.
Can't blame them it's the culture we have now especially in tech, and it's incentivized top-down.
There's a place for prototyping and experimental features but now agile has cultivated extreme learned helplessness and everything is an A/B test because there's no longer any ability to judge whether something is good or bad based on a holistic vision.
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