Is this Software Development now?

I must admit I used to be an AI sceptic. I used AI a lot when Claude Code first came out, and it struggled with even simple bash scripts introducing a lot of mistakes that I would have to check and correct. There was so much back and forth just to get something working that it was questionable how anyone was saving time with this. Now with the latest models, it is truly impressive what can be achieved. YouTube seems to be full at the moment with people vibe coding whole games. I have seen copies of Splatoon, Mario Kart, Minecraft, GTA, Spiderman and even Godzilla. Someone even made a lawn mowing game. As you probably saw on the news a few weeks ago someone used AI to clone the whole Adobe and Microsoft Office suite and put it up for free on GitHub. Yes undoubtedly this code is riddled with bugs and is nowhere near production ready, but it is usable and completely free. If before AI, someone came to you and said they made any of these projects by themselves, over the course of a…

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