A 44 minutes AI research about AI hype... (I will trust these guys any day over random Youtubers and AI CEOs): Conclusion: a practitioner consensus hiding in plain sight The aggregate signal from 22 technically credentialed skeptics is not "AI coding doesn't work". Most of them use it daily. It is narrower and harder to refute: AI coding assistants are good amplifiers and poor autonomous engineers; their productivity claims are systematically inflated; their output degrades code quality absent senior review; they cannot do formal specification, real planning, or off-distribution engineering; they are introducing a new security regime (prompt injection, the lethal trifecta) that is architecturally unsolved; and they are inducing measurable skill atrophy in junior developers while organizations quietly keep hiring them. Karpathy's "decade of agents," Orosz's "typing was never the bottleneck," Fowler's "of course it's a bubble," Stenberg's "death by a thousand slops," LeCun's "complete bullshit," and the METR 19% slowdown are now the load-bearing citations of this counter-narrative. The most useful framing the period produced is Kent Beck's and Simon Willison's pair: "augmented coding" and "vibe engineering" on one side, "vibe coding" and "slop" on the other. What separates them is not the tool but the engineer's discipline, which is exactly the conclusion every critic on this list, whether from the Linux kernel, a C++ committee, a game studio, or a foundation model lab, converges on. The 22 sources: 1. Andrej Karpathy. OpenAI founding member, former Tesla AI director, Stanford CS231n creator, and the person who coined "vibe coding." 2. Yann LeCun. Turing Award winner, convolutional neural network pioneer, Meta's former Chief AI Scientist, and founder of AMI Labs. 3. Linus Torvalds. Creator of the Linux kernel and Git, the two most widely deployed pieces of infrastructure in computing. 4. Richard Stallman. Founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, author of GCC, GDB, and Emacs. 5. Bjarne Stroustrup. Creator of C++ and long-standing member of the ISO C++ standards committee. 6. Rob Pike. Co-creator of the Go programming language, UTF-8, and Plan 9; Bell Labs Unix veteran. 7. Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez). Creator of Redis, the most popular in-memory data store in the world. 8. David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH). Creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY). 9. Simon Willison. Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette and the LLM CLI tool, widely read AI practitioner. 10. Gergely Orosz. Author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, former Uber engineering manager, The Software Engineer's Guidebook. 11. Armin Ronacher. Creator of Flask and Jinja, founding engineer at Sentry. 12. Martin Fowler. Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks, author of Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. 13. Kent Beck. Creator of Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development, and JUnit; signatory of the Agile Manifesto. 14. George Hotz (geohot). First iPhone and PlayStation 3 unlocker, founder of comma.ai (self-driving) and tinygrad (ML framework). 15. Jonathan Blow. Creator of Braid and The Witness, designer of the Jai programming language. 16. Casey Muratori. Creator of Handmade Hero, performance engineering educator, founder of Molly Rocket. 17. John Carmack. Co-founder of id Software, architect of Doom, Quake, and the modern 3D engine; founder of Keen Technologies. 18. Theo Browne (t3dotgg). Founder of Ping.gg and Uploadthing, popular full-stack developer educator on YouTube. 19. ThePrimeagen (Michael Paulson). Former Netflix senior engineer, prominent developer streamer and Neovim advocate. 20. Bryan Cantrill. Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer, co-creator of DTrace, former Joyent CTO. 21. Hillel Wayne. Formal methods practitioner and educator, author of Learn TLA+ and Practical TLA+. 22. Daniel Stenberg. Creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, running in an estimated 20+ billion installations. Plus the METR study (Model Evaluation & Threat Research), the nonprofit whose July 2025 randomized controlled trial produced the 19% slowdown finding that's cited throughout.