Time for Lots of App Ideas and the Shift to AI Engineering

AIs have developed a lot after the release of ChatGPT in 2022. AI agents can now code all common apps, engineers will do most of supervising and make logic with Natural Language instead of a progrmaming languge.

The job market shift:

• Fewer jobs for non-AI capable engineers
• More jobs for AI-knowing engineers

The role in software development shift:

• Fewer developers in companies
• More developers in open-source, indie, 1-man-army teams

Basically, thinking that AI is taking away jobs is not complete:

• Some job types have fewer positions, some others have more
• Companies take fewer employees but independent devs are more.

AI-integrated Workflow

AI is now integrated everywhere in software industry, this is a sample of the workflow in a team with AI assistants, AI agents:

• Project manager -> What to do (AI-assisted plan)
• -> Tech manager -> Architecture (AI-assisted tech design)
• -> UI designers -> UI & graphics (AI-generated-with)
• -> Tabbers/vibers -> Tech choices + logic (AI answers)
• -> AI agents -> Combine and generate!
• -> QA/QC -> Check results (with AI analysis)

Vibe Coding Flow

These are the recommended work flow when doing vibe coding on a project:

1. Creation
• a. Create empty folder for project
• b. Tell AI agent to create boiler plate of project with selected techs
2. Development
• a. Start a Task in AI agent for feature or edit
• b. Type to tell AI agent to do actions
• c. Tell AI agent to finish the task to avoid context confusion
• d. Back to point 2a.

How to Install OpenCode for VS Code/Antigravity Terminal

AI agents can help coding, but OpenCode is a specific AI agent in terminal to work mainly with dirs and files, it can work with some code too. Here's how to install in VS Code/Antigravity (AntiG) IDEs:

• Backend: Install OpenCode CLI in terminal (eg. Pwsh)
  npm i -g opencode-ai
• Find the location of opencode command
  (get-command opencode).path
• Add path to opencode command (opencode.ps1)
  Add to PATH in System Properties
• Extension: Install OpenCode in VS Code/AntiG:
• Find the 'opencode' extension by SST to install
• Also install the 'OpenCode Beta' extension by SST
• Get Key: Authenticate OpenCode CLI
• Open opencode.ai/zen in browser to get key
• Run this command to set key
  opencode auth login
• Or type /connect later after run
• Run: Use either of these ways to start OpenCode
• Click OpenCode icon on top-right corner of IDE
• Or run 'opencode' command in terminal of IDE
• Choose Model: Type the following in OpenCode to choose model (Big Pickle is currently free, early 2026):
• /models

Notes: Some important and usage notes

• Run OpenCode by clicking icon better, it opens port for other tools
• OpenCode doesn't know editor context (eg. opened tabs) 'cause it's terminal-specific AI agent
• Light theme? none yet, type /themes and choose Nord, a bit lighter
• Edit opencode.json in %USERPROFILE%\.config\opencode
• Format: https://opencode.ai/docs/themes/#using-a-theme

Current Levels of AIs Used in Software Development by Developers

These are some AI guys tested in the early months of 2026:

• Gemini (in Antigravity, huge model): Engineer level
• Can do almost all tasks just as an engineer being told to do.
• Free models (large model): Intern level
• Can do almost all tasks BUT don't understand all the sections in source code to combine them properly.
• Local models (small model): Amateur level
• Can't do all tasks, maybe doing only some simple tasks such as change this var to, change this HTML tag to... are ok.

The Evolution of Programming Languages

This is the evolution of programming languages since the beginning:

• 1st gen: Bit-by-bit: Punchcards
• 2nd gen: Assembly: Short instructions
• 3rd gen: High-level: Logic, eg. C (3rd gen, that's why it's call C the third letter), Pascal
• 4th gen: High-level with OOP: eg. C++
• 5th gen: High-level with OOP/ML: eg. C++ on Qt with QML
• 6th gen: ‼️Human Language: eg. Vibe coding!

I thought after 5th gen, it would evolve to add AI syntax but it happened to human language instead. Anyway, I partially got it right, something about AI added in.

ITE in AIE: IT Companies and Engineers in AI Era

IT Companies
Change or die:

• Apps? AI is doing it all
• R&D? Companies must have R&D department to do what AI is not doing yet.

Software Engineers [Use AI]

Vibing = Coding with Natural Language

What to do:

• Low tier? Do supervising the AI while it codes
• Need knowledge, vibing is actually code using Natural Language instead of Programming Language. 
• Current devs don't need to worry, you are still coding but using Natural Language this time.
• High tier? Do R&D
• Need lots of knowledge, AI understanding

AI Engineers [Make AI]
Career development:

• Jnr AI Engineer: Capable of design some AI (neuralnet)
• Need ok result of AI output 
• Snr AI Engineer: Capable of designing AI for any AI solution (neuralnet)
• Need good results of AI output
• AI Expert: Capable of designing any top AI (neuralnet)
• Need tip-top results of AI output
• AI Master: AI Expert with understanding of neuroscience
• Doing R&D most of the time
• AI Grand Master: AI Masters who are top of the world
• Making directions most of the time

Some GPU Considerations Good to Use with Local LLM Models

🌟Best choice: RTX 3090

• 2 generations before -> low cost
• 24 GB VRAM -> top power for LLM (VRAM thirsty)

🧠 NVIDIA Consumer GPUs (≥ 8 GB VRAM, sorted by VRAM)

24 GB VRAM

• RTX 4090
  RTX 3090
  RTX 3090 Ti

👉 Absolute best for local LLMs (big context, no offload).

20 GB VRAM

• RTX 4080 Super (20 GB variants exist in some regions / AIBs)
  RTX 3080 Ti (20 GB OEM / rare variants)

👉 Rare, but very strong if you find one.

16 GB VRAM

• RTX 4080
  RTX 4070 Ti Super
  RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
  RTX 3080 16 GB (rare AIBs)
  RTX 2080 Ti

👉 Sweet spot for serious local LLM + agents.

Vibe Coding Era is Here but Still Not Free

Some setups to test vibe coding power of current tools (amongst tools not of big techs, Cline and Continue+Ollama are popular):

1. Antigravity (with Gemini 3 inside -- not free)
2. VS Code (with Cline -- FREE for local model)
3. VS Code (with Continue+Ollama -- FREE for local model)

Antigravity with Gemini 3 (or Claude Sonnet)

• Comprehensive, at engineer level to follow instruction to code/edit features
• Good to work with this engineer level for a few hours and allowance runs out!

Antigravity (or) VS Code, with Cline

• Cline extension installable on both VS Code and Antigravity
• Cline extension auth fails (currently Jan 2026)
  OR: TRY AGAIN LATER

VS Code with Continue+Ollama

• Continue extension UI tells to download Ollama & models, this is clear how to use.
• Ollama is shipped with Vulkan (see in Ollama installation dir) means it can use GPU
  (download GPU-Z to run along Ollama to see if GPU used)
• However, a GPU of 4GB VRAM won't be enough for Llama 3.1 8B (suggested by Continue)
• Results:
• Slow processing of prompts
• Low comprehension
  eg. only 'dev' command in package.json but agent suggests 'npm run start'
• Feels like one should code by himself better.

Suggestions to anyone want to run vibe coding locally:

• Buy a GPU with huge VRAM, not the latest generation (not needed)

Vibe Coding Era and the Problem of Losing Jobs

Vibe coding is good now, programming can be done faster and the available jobs for developers reduce. Senior/highly-skill, knowledge-rich senior developers don't face a change in their job status but for junior developers it is a problem.

The scenario for senior developers:

• Nothing changed

The scenario for junior developers:

• May lose job
• Way out: Vibe IDEs kill jobs, but make the way for junior developers create apps easier and find their own oppotunities in the software market with quick to production procedure of making software from many ideas.

Author is a dev and not sure about other sectors affected by AI or no, but jobs should have a way out too.