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points by adamddev1 9 hours ago | 0 comments
The people who build all the solid, crucial parts of the infrastructure and tools that the vibe coders depend on. People who are pushing forward with new ideas. People who are building solid, snappy, delightful software. People who take joy in understanding the logic and creating solid, novel abstractions.

It is such a big category error to say "we're building simple apps without looking at code, therefore no one reads code anymore."

I'm not sure if this comment is meant as a little joke or observation, but I keep on seeing serious comments like this. It is serious anti-intellectualism to scoff at people reading programming books or understanding things.

[–] pitchlatte 6 hours ago
well written. i also feel that the generation of code becoming possible/simple means that our theoretical fundamentals ought to become that much more secure.
[–] perrygeo 8 hours ago
> People who are pushing forward with no ideas.

s/no/new ideas?

The people pushing forward with no ideas are likely not reading much either.

[–] adamddev1 8 hours ago
That was a typo - I meant new ideas
[–] perrygeo 7 hours ago
Got it. Yeah, everything we'd consider "new ideas" demands, at the very minimum, a strident curiosity about how things currently work. Those people tend to read. A lot.
[–] so-cal-schemer 8 hours ago
Perhaps he was thinking of vibe coders.

s/ideas/understanding/

a glitch in the dialogue