The xz backdoor should've been a wake up call for everyone subscribing to the classic cargo cult that "malware can't exist in open-source software". All the payload was submitted through auditable code that was cleverly concealed from review.
> If a growing number of people have the sentiment that an engineer vibecoding an idea has less value than a human doing it then that is all that will matter in the end.
Because if you put them on balance that will be the truth.
I am facing that very dilemma. I lean more to the anti-AI side, I don't want to get my skills atrophied by relying on it, but I recognize its potential productivity boosts as tempting to use.
Since memory is becoming an expensive commodity, I guess the old ways of being precious on the efficient memory usage of your program (like it running on the constrained 1mb memory back then) are making a comeback.
I only feel sorrow for the electron devs, they will have a hard time.
Jetpack compose is very refreshing to use, it integrates well with Kotlin DSL capabilities.
My only problem is its Web target is still very dull to use, with its long cold startup time and since it's all rendered into one big canvas elements, it doens't integrates well with browser native acessibility features.
I find that a very bold move, how will they reivent the wheel on the man-years of optimization work went into LLVM to their own compiler infrastructure?