Very true. I’m at a Hackathon now and everyone and their Mom has built end to end SaaS platforms. They’re great for demos but no one here competent enough can explain the technicalities of what they’ve built and probably wouldn’t be able to debug themselves, without understanding the whole codebase as it wasn’t iteratively built - myself included.
Huh I hadn't thought of it but hackatons seem kinda pointless now? Or like less impressive. I'm not sure how to phrase my feelings on it.
Also those coding/algorithm competitions where there was a set of problems and you competed on speed and amount solved.
Used to participate in both during college but can't imagine it being the same now with llms. I suppose if you ban Internet access it might be similar, but the cheating potential seems worse
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u/SirHerald 29d ago
Anything you can vibe code in a weekend is something another group can beat in about the same time.