And what about vibe coding? The whole point and selling point of many AI companies is that you don’t need experience as a programmer.
So they sell something that isn’t true, it’s not FSD for coding but driving assistance.
The house of the feeble minded: https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
> Tighten the causal claim: “AI writes code → therefore judgment is scarce”
As one of the first suggestions, so it's not something inherent to whether the article used AI in some way. Regardless, I care less about how the article got written and more about what conclusions really make sense.
> The Bun acquisition blows a hole in that story.
> That contradiction is not a PR mistake. It is a signal.
> The bottleneck isn’t code production, it is judgment.
> They didn’t buy a pile of code. They bought a track record of correct calls in a complex, fast-moving domain.
> Leaders don’t express their true beliefs in blog posts or conference quotes. They express them in hiring plans, acquisition targets, and compensation bands.
Not to mention the gratuitous italics-within-bold usage.
I don’t know if HN has made me hyper-sensitized to AI writing, but this is becoming unbearable.
When I find myself thinking “I wonder what the prompt was they used?” while reading the content, I can’t help but become skeptical about the quality of the thinking behind the content.
Maybe that’s not fair, but it’s the truth. Or put differently “Fair? No. Truthful? Yes.”. Ugh.
> Everyone’s heard the line: “AI will write all the code; engineering as you know it is finished... The Bun acquisition blows a hole in that story.”
But what the article actually discusses and demonstrates by the end of the article is how the aspects of engineering beyond writing the code is where the value in human engineers is at this point. To me that doesn't seem like an example of a revealed preference in this case. If you take it back to the first part of the original quote above it's just a different wording for AI being the code writer and engineering being different.
I think what the article really means to drive against is the claim/conclusion "because AI can generate lots of code we don't need any type of engineer" but that's just not what the quote they chose to set out against is saying. Without changing that claim the acquisition of Bun is not really a counterexample, Bun had just already changed the way they do engineering so the AI wrote the code and the engineers did the other things.