> But with AI, now you can make that tool in five minutes, and you don't need to be an engineer, and you don’t need to write code. I really wish those farcical

> But with AI, now you can make that tool in five minutes, and you don't need to be an engineer, and you don’t need to write code. I really wish those farcical statements would stop (I know it's not really made by the author itself). I'm a software engineer, my partner isn't. She used AI to vibe-code scripts to help her analyze large Excel files. It worked, except the script only looked at the first tab of the Excel files, not all of the tab, which could have had disastrous effects if I didn't read the code and realize it was wrong. Similarly, her team went from using Excel to track project proposals, to vibe-coding a website that's deployed on CloudFront and AWS Lambda. They don't understand any of this technology, have no clue what they are doing, and, more importantly, don't realize that they have sunk tens of hours, if not hundreds, in developing a portal that has absolutely no advantage over the Excel file they used to use. They also don't realize that if I wasn't there as an experienced software engineer fixing the stuff that's broken when my partner asks me for help, their website just wouldn't run at all. No, non-engineers cannot make their own tools.