Ernesto’s conflict: thinker v builder? On the “trap of pragmatism” in the age of (statistical pattern matching mistaken for) AI
[…] I am currently writing much more, and more complicated software than ever, yet I feel I am not growing as an engineer at all. When I started meditating on why I felt “stuck,” I realized I am starving The Thinker.
[…] “Vibe coding” satisfies the Builder. It feels great to see to pass from idea to reality in a fraction of a time that would take otherwise. But it has drastically cut the times I need to came up with creative solutions for technical problems. I know many people who are purely Builders, for them this era is the best thing that ever happened. But for me, something is missing.
https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard
AI is challenging not only how we work, but who we become through using it. The Mainländer quote at the end suggests to me that the author, Ernesto, is not optimistic about this transformation…
