Good way of putting it. Productivity aside, I think the final generation using AI will loose the understanding so much that it would be replaced completely by AI, which also doesn't understand what it is doing but following patterns, which I guess most devs do anyway lol
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Things like nostr and cashu can only be brought to the world by those that understand basics programming and good pattern. so you’ll need them, but clients and higher level app will likely be vibe coded.
AI replacing us entirely is also a probability but that’s in a dystopian future
Interesting era we are living in. To witness the birth of the internet itself and then its different mutations is something already.
cashu is 1983 technology and vibe coded apps are going to be way more buggy than hand coded, and ai is just lossy compression of large volumes of data... and nostr's protocol is also backwards because fiatjaf didn't understand everything can be done easier and more stable with http
proper software takes time to build up, it took me a year part time to build the fastest relay and it's still not 100% production ready by my standards, not "vibe coded" lossy compression standards
what is great about nostr is it is simple enough that it will proliferate into a whole new class of infrastructure on the level we saw with HTTP in the last 20 years, and it's not going to happen overnight, and nobody is going to use vibe coded apps once they degenerate into a feature fest while nothing is tested and the errors of the AI continue to not be attended to by rigorous software engineers
I just think vibe coded is gonna be used on the last mile of development. AI generates on top of a multitude of framework and protocol (a huge pile of art down to the alphabet). I do think you can vibe code a ton of micro client/app that will be fun enough to use on top of nostr and cashu and many other things.
Also the advance of AI recently are breath taking, the latest models are performing really well to the point that I’m wondering if those machines will just make us looks like the retarded bitcoiner that we are
Do you have a repo for your relay ?
it changes nothing of substance, only real computer scientists can build good software, AI is just a shortcut to part way to something that will end up taking longer to fix than if it had been carefully hand written by people who understand software architecture
I'm in this camp yes. I just don't know for how long this will be the case.
AI doesn't have to be conscious to beat us at thinking; finding patterns, applying fitting solutions, assessing and refining.