This is the opposite of that 'teach a man to fish and he'll never grow hungry" etc.
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I had to google Vibe Coding. Seems like it's not actual coding and you'd then have to check the code yourself and at that point why bother? Easier to start with something that makes sense then the understand and fix a cluster fuck.
Nah, that would be programming with AI.
In vibe "coding", you ask the AI for the code and just run it. If it doesn't do what you want it to do, you just ask the AI again, or another AI. Ad infinitum.
Check the code yourself? That's like 5th century pleb work, vibe "coders" would be wasting their precious time when they can just ask another AI to do it.
You can always tell when your on a new bug when you ask about error “exception when calling…” and AI returns your exact implementation of the error back as a solution.
Not really intelligent
"you'll own nothing and be happy" applies to skills now.
As usual, people assign conspiratorial motives and strategies to behavior that's really an extremely simple straight line between two points: "AI software has a lower apparent cost than hiring another developer, so let's use AI."
Vibe coding is stupid
Really wish they'd be a direct link to the source, not solely a screenshot. Is this the Web?
I mean it's only a problem depending on the cost of the tools? Renting 4-5k a year worth of tools to make 150k might be ok to some people. While you are at risk of every increasing prices you could just use the time that it's cheap now to when it gets expensive later to educate yourself.
What's the alternative give some college 250k plus crazy interest rates and 4 years of your life?
Just like with all tools blue collar or white they are worth what you can earn from using them.
WTF "vibe coding"? I'm not even wasting the electricity to googgle that one.
Ask an LLM to write code for you. Paste it into your IDE, try to run it. Describe the problems to your IDE and ask how to fix them. Lather rinse repeat.
They have automated IDEs now, so no copy-pasting required. They can even automatically push to production without your input.
If you run your AI, point doesn't matter. However, what matters more is the fact that if you don't use a skill, you just straight up lose it and that's what AI is doing to developers. Mfs straight up forget how to write code
I learn a lot debugging the code I get from AI, and occasionally, I learn a thing or two.
It's very helpful that there are a handful of nonsense phrases that AI has scraped by reading journal articles wrong. They're commonly published in magazine format with a bunch of narrow columns, so there's some gibberish that AI scraped by reading across the page instead of down the columns. I want to make a database of those nonsense phrases so that I can just Ctrl+F in a journal article to see if I should just skip reading it because it's AI garbage.
Shitholes rearing their head thr last 5 6 years made a lot of people forget , America is also a massive shithole
On the other side, if it's "deskilling" to do vibe coding instead of real coding isn't this person saying that the barrier to entry for coding has been lowered?
Either vibe coding is not effective and is therefore not taking away the skill of coding or it is effective enough to replace aspects of coding that you would otherwise need to develop the skill to do.
Like if I'm an engineer or a real estate agent or a business...dude, and I want to use coding in my field but I don't have the time or desire to start learning a whole skill (anywhere from having children to just learning too many skills already) I assume vibe coding is my best friend.
Im not going to lie, I totally vibe code. Ive been using it to build guis that help speed up repetitive processes. Vibe coding has been helping me learn too code. I think people abuse it for sure. The code still needs to be checked since LLMs are about as trustworthy as Quora.
I think it can do some stuff, especially some entry level tedium.
So far I haven't seen a single success on the specific things I've tried it for, even when pretty short, other than exceedingly trivial things like reminding me whether this language has a join as a string method or as an array method of o don't use it that often.
I do see potential for an awkward gap between unskilled and skilled where an entry level person doesn't have as clear a path to getting actually better. In math this generally happens in school, where they keep students from using the most effective tools until they prove they can do without it. So education might have to go a bit further into programming skills rather than delegating quite so much to the professional workplace that may be less inclined.
I've been using chatgpt to help me build a Bubble website. That is, I am doing all the work, I just bounce questions of how to achieve things and structure conditional statements correctly.
Because I'm basically sanity checking everything it says vs copying blindly, it's interesting to see just how much it gets caught in a loop of misinformation. I'm lucky to be one of those learners who just needs an example, even if it's a shitty one, to figure it out myself, so I often find myself using it simply to see how it's NOT done.
But yeah, I know jack shit about coding but I'm sure AI code sucks ass.
100%. Half the time I see the first couple lines of AI code and I'm like, nah, that's not right. Let's do it myself lol
Good for you to want to learn a new skill and taking things that LLMs spit out with healthy skepticism. I'm afraid future generations will lack such motivation.
Having been a coder for decades before AI came on the scene, I don't understand how inexperienced programmers could possibly write a serious amount of working code with AI.
It's wrong, like, at least half the time, but as an experienced coder, I can look at the "code" it generated and know what it was trying to do, and then write it correctly. I do find AI useful when I'm not sure how to go about solving a particular code-related issue, but ... it just gives me something to think about, not an answer I can use directly.
I can look at the "code" it generated and know what it was trying to do, and then write it correctly. I do find AI useful when I'm not sure how to go about solving a particular code-related issue, but ... it just gives me something to think about, not an answer I can use directly.
So glad to see others that do that. Still haven't really tried to understand what vibe coding is, as I try and ignore passing terms, but I was starting to think it was just using the AI assistants in any way. I use it in the same way as you and find it perfectly fine for that purpose but I can't imagine using it for anything more.
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