... intention of helping companies (and a little bit of fear of not being fired), we are collaborating on a project that will replace us. So the question here is not "if" but "when". And presumably, if the employees refused, someone else would be found to do it. Is there any way to object to AI training, which is preparation for our dismissal? Are there any laws that can protect employees? What can happen to the social system, people and their ... ... sounds harsh, but every major technological shift has destroyed some jobs and created others. When factories, cars, electricity, computers, and the internet arrived, they all replaced parts of the old economy. Should factory workers 100 years ago have refused

... open Chrome or control your browser. I'm a code assistant, I work with files, run shell commands, and help with software engineering tasks. Today, that same Claude books flights for me, fills out forms, checks competitor pricing every morning at 9am, and triages my email before I sit down at my desk. The difference is an MCP server called OpenOwl (adds screenshot, click, type, OCR tools to Claude) plus a specific prompting pattern I figured out through trial ... ... error. The core problem: if you ask Claude to do a complex desktop task right away, it refuses

... builder s seat. After interviewing over 30 developers for my new projects, I ve noticed a disturbing trend. Most senior devs are stuck in a "Copy-Paste" loop. They use AI to generate a single function, but they refuse to let the AI see the "Full Truth" of the entire repository. They are treating a "Co-Architect" like a "Dictionary." In my view, this is a defensive mechanism a refusal

... structure. So I'm curious: If you're an experienced developer building your own product: -> Are you letting yourself vibecode the MVP, or are you engineering it "properly" from day one? -> What's the one thing you refuse to cut corners on, even for an MVP? -> Have you shipped something vibecoded and then regretted (or NOT regretted) the technical debt? Would love to hear from both sides. I think there's a middle ground here that nobody ... ... middle ground nobody talks about and I think it's the right answer for most technical founders. The thing is, agentic coding is inevitable. The product scales, the economics usually don't. So the question isn't vibecode vs