In reply to @autisticrenegade "sometimes i feel like": if you stay a programmer you will stay a problem solver. there are ethical concerns but from a purely scientific and artistic view, I think everyone should look at how mathematicians are responding to AI, since they've been hit much harder than programmers: you can make yourself smarter and find more beauty in the world and AI can be a way to explore that and make yourself smarter by studying what you can find with it. this is in complete opposition to the way vibe coding is done. genuinely so many fields are growing and are becoming more interesting, and in my opinion this is really a beautiful thing for computer science. you think other ppl are doing impressive stuff with it? do cutting edge research. RIGHT NOW. learn things faster and more deeply and try a bunch of things and do something incredible RIGHT NOW. because you can