Of course I wouldn't vibe code in a serious production project, but I'd
still use an AI agent, except I'd make sure I understand every line it
puts out.
So you value your ability to churn out insignificant dreck over the ability of others to use the internet? Because that's the choice you're making. All of the sites that churn your browser for a few seconds because they're trying to block AI DDoS bots, that's worth your convenience on meaningless projects? The increased blast radius of Cloudflare outages, that's a cost with foisting on to the rest of the internet for your convenience?
This is such a... unique angle. Of all the things to get angry at AI for, web crawlers and the impact on cloudflare outages are the ones that really grinds your gears?
The difference is context: that link is a service saying they're having to make some changes, because of AI crawlers.
The context here is it's a HN post about someone being excited about AI bringing them back to coding, in response to a comment on that HN post with someone else being excited about the useful things they've been able to do about AI.
In that context, it's a unique choice to respond with a load of confrontational and rhetorical questions about AI being bad because crawlers and cloudflare outages. It reads like the they just wanted 2 excited programmers to feel bad about themselves for using AI. It's not really the sort of response I'd expect here.
Thanks.