dcbeckman
I am hoping many of them are just a little behind the times, and do not understand that Claude Code
of the last several months, is not a vibe coding agent of 2025.
I can't talk for others, but from my own point of view, the change were so fast that even in my day job (senior software developer) they didn't consider to spend some money to bring us, the company developers, paid account to use AI until late of 2025. Before it was just mostly each individual that may consider to use the free, chat-based AI, mostly as a quicker stack-overflow alternative.
So, depending on how each one was exposed or not to latest AI, paid by someone else (not everybody have the money, plus the spare time, to spend to try it at home), one can be "behind times" indeed, without being necessarily a dinosaur himself.
But I agree that AI assisted software engineering is here to stay, and to become the de facto way to do it. But it's a brutal, very quick paradigm switch. It's been 60+ years that sofware code was written mostly by hands by developers (the multiple promised no-code approaches over decades never landed in cost-effective solutions), and just in a few months, barely a year, a completely new technology make it possible to do it by expressing what you want, not encoding directly. It's very disruptive, and all the consequences are far from being measured yet on the IT field.
Personally, I fear that it will have a bad impact on open source, because people who have skills will want to protect their ability to keep being paid for it instead of being pushed away by AI "learning" from what they shared publicly, making them expandable.
After all, that why proprietary software editors keep it closed source in the first place: to keep control so that every money made from it goes exclusively to them.
