E251 - Vibe Coding and the Fragmentation of Open Source

Why Machine-Writing Code is the Best (and Most Dangerous) Thing for Geospatial:   The current discourse surrounding AI coding is nothing if not polarized. On one side, the technofuturists urge us to throw away our keyboards; on the other, skeptics dismiss Large Language Models (LLMs) as little more than "fancy autocomplete" that will never replace a "real" engineer. Both sides miss the nuanced reality of the shift we are living through right now.   I recently sat down with Matt Hansen, Director of Geospatial Ecosystems at Element 84, to discuss this transition. With a 30-year career spanning the death of photographic film to th...