Somebody thought our homepage at
@startdotdev was vibe coded. It took me days to learn
@splinetool
to make our hero section. Not that using AI is bad, but whoever thought this was made by AI, really doesn't know what AI output looks like.
I seriously cannot stand these people anymore. I don't know what happened to a good chunk of the tech community. I used to connect with these people because they loved technology like I do. They wanted to learn, build, experiment, and talk about what was possible. Over the past couple of years, though, I've watched a huge portion of that curiosity turn into pure skepticism, pessimism, and hostility.
There are two ridiculous extremes in the AI debate. On one end, you have people claiming that non-developers can vibe code anything and that anyone can instantly become a developer. On the other, you have people who treat AI like politics and completely lose their minds over anything associated with it.
Lately, I see far more of the latter, and honestly, they are even more irrational and insufferable than the vibe coders. I also know that many of them use AI themselves. They don't actually care about having an honest discussion. AI is just their latest excuse to shit on everyone and everything while pretending they are taking some principled stand.
I used to follow politics, but the audiences around political content, on both the left and the right, became so toxic and irrational that I eventually stopped caring about any of it. I appreciate level-headed people who can discuss complicated topics without turning everything into a tribal war. That is what I once believed the tech community was. It does not feel that way anymore, and it is incredibly demotivating and depressing.
I am not saying this describes most people, but it describes a large and increasingly loud group. If you find yourself making stupid comments like this, take a step back and ask what you are actually contributing. Criticism is healthy. Skepticism is necessary. Blind hostility, personal attacks, and performative outrage are not.
You do not have to love AI. You do not have to use it. You can question the hype, the ethics, the business models, and the effect it may have on our industry. But if you cannot discuss any of that without attacking people, assuming the worst, or turning every conversation into a moral crusade, then you are not protecting the tech community. You are helping destroy the very curiosity and openness that made it worth being part of in the first place.
Sorry for the long post