ai coding has brought out one of the dynamics i hate most about engineers a few years ago there was a trend where everyone would just regurgitate frontend framework facts they memorized "gotta SSR on my PPR till i ISR" and there would be all these useless debates back and forth on these details and nowhere was anyone showing impressive product experiences - entire conversation was devoid of the thing that matters same goes with AI coding - every week there's a new "wow codex is it right now it's changing all my workflows" and then people argue about it it's even worse because everyone is specifically claiming productivity so you'd expect there to be way more demos of "look what i built" but of course there aren't, people get their satisfaction by showing claude code running in 6 tmux panes like they're doing anything i really wish we'd have a culture of product first - build something so good that people need to know how you did it i literally do not care about your thoughts on anything if you don't start by shipping something that's impressive without that it's all just masturbation