I will never understand why people recommend using models with the capabilities of early 2025.
They cannot even move 10 existing lines of code around without breaking it in the process half of the time.
I very much doubt they are up to the task of implementing any sort of plan with a reliability that allows to complete the work faster than writing the code by hand.
I'm doing solo mobile app projects, and I have no need to iterate on specs. The bottleneck is QA testing whether it works on the phone.
I don't need to carefully review and understand the implementation.
It's not important whether I understand the details of how exactly UICollectionView in Apple's UIKit works.
I see that my implementation works on different physical devices, my tests cover device rotation, and I checked the memory allocations in the Instruments tool.
It has been some months of part-time work on my side, and I will publish this iOS app soon.
Without AI I could not have done it, the scope of the features is too large. The project is around 100k LOC.
It is not true that projects become unmaintainable and abandoned because of agentic engineering, or even vibecoding if you want to call it that.
I reads like an unhinged rant about AI and the engineers who use it, with the entitled tone of people who think they have permission to insult someone's competence and work because AI was used.
In my opinion, if one cannot express themselves civilly, they should refrain from commenting.
I disagree. I wouldn't consider it unhinged. I'm clearly aware of my own frustration. It's also relatively civil, since I was able to temper it with appropriate apologies and acknowledgements. Many other people agree and support the sentiment of what I'm saying.
AI is a powerful tool and very capable of - amongst other things - making something look far more valuable than it actually is, and that is a huge waste of time that costs us all. We all have a responsibility to call this out when we see it.
It looks like you've just implied I'm entitled, unhinged, uncivil and and that I shouldn't have contributed at all, whilst thinking you've elevated yourself above that behaviour by saying "in my opinion" and "one should...". I think that's an unhinged, insulting and uncivil way to express yourself.
I found the website you ranted about interesting, comparing the quality of the visualization between the different models.
I don't think it was "a huge waste of time" or needed your rant.
You called it slop and questioned the competence of the author, as if he made grand claims about the objectivity of his comparison.
What I see often is that people assume others are incompetent just because they used AI, when in reality they are engineers no less competent or experienced than others on this website.
This is slop, in the sense that it looks like a lot of useful work and effort, and AI is heavily involved, and it was offered up when the opposite was requested, meaning it's not at all helpful in this context.
I raised this in a harsh, but repeatedly apologetic way. The person then responded telling me to "get my facts straight" and doubled down with more weak, qualitative outputs of LLMs.
I don't assume the person is incompetent because they used LLMs. I use them daily. I'm a firm believer everyone is an idiot, just in a different subject.
The issue here I feel is that LLMs are increasingly leading people think that they're not an idiot in any subject at all, and when real humans question it, they double down with more AI stuff.
You think it was civil when the comment started with:
> this post gets me irrationally irritated and makes me want to shake you and shout
Yes, criticism of my work would not generally be a personal insult.
However, if you were to call my work 'slop', and say that I'm either inexperienced or that I'm an 'over-invested-in-AI engineer' we would be having a problem on a personal level. This is not a civil or respectful way to talk to someone.
> You think it was civil when the comment started with:
>> this post gets me irrationally irritated and makes me want to shake you and shout
Did you read the rest of the comment? The rest of it is civil. It's normal for people to start by saying something like "this makes me frustrated" as a preface to indicate their feelings, and then not actually act frustrated and instead calmly work through their thoughts. That is a meatspace social convention (not just an online one) - are you not aware of it?
> However, if you were to call my work 'slop'
And, as previously established, if you use AI, it's not your work.
> and say that I'm either inexperienced or that I'm an 'over-invested-in-AI engineer' we would be having a problem on a personal level
...and those are still criticisms of your work, not yourself.
The actual problem here is that you are taking offense to things that are not offensive, not that the parent poster was being uncivil. Thinking that calling someone "inexperienced" is a personal insult is absolutely insane. That's a wildly miscalibrated sense of how social dynamics work and what it actually means to insult someone.
I also see a lot of people saying they are happy with weaker models.
At work I had to switch to using GPT 5.4 Mini and Qwen 3.6 27B.
The results were near useless.
The error rate is through the roof, it's constantly incorrect in its conclusions even when investigating very simple issues.
Further the models are too unreliable to even move 20 line snippets around without inadvertently modifying them. Ask them to correct it and they still get it wrong.
Maybe the larger Chinese models are better, but the Mini stuff is next to useless to me.
I have Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B running locally and and coming from Opus it feels like talking to an imposter. Someone who pretends to be competent, but really isn’t. Results are always disappointing. Sonnet is better, but I have given up on asking it. even for simple things I wait for my opus limits to reset.
This is likely to delay, if not prevent, the release of more capable models in the future.
And apart from the big picture, I just paid Anthropic $200 on Friday with the understanding that I can use the model for 10 days until the 22nd.
I planned two productive days of work this weekend. There's still Codex, but I'm obviously disappointed with this and want my $200 back.
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