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[–] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

As if AI gave any power in the first place. I'm yet to see any AI produce anything even remotely useful, and have about a dozen or two cases where it was nothing but a complete waste of time.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 day ago (14 children)

    I’m honestly shocked how normalized this is.

    Have we really become so lazy that we don’t even want to learn a minimum of a programming language, especially if you work in IT? Sure, if you have no training or education in IT and just want to make a quick app to help your personal projects, go crazy. But I’d say even then you’d he doing yourself a disfavor by not even looking at some documentation for 5 minutes. It seems like today people completely disregard the value of constant learning, even if it won’t result in the next Apple, I feel like learning something new even surface-level can only be beneficial. Vibe-coding is just one aspect, the fact people are reading worse and worse further shows that learning simply lost its appeal, people just want to make money believing billionaires who tell them “oh anyone can be like me, without school or education you just need crypto or whatever the next finance bro trend is”.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    Have we really become so lazy that we don’t even want to learn a minimum of a programming language

    It's worse than that. I've seen people who used to be good programmers, writing complicated FPGA data processing applications, reduced to barely being able to read simple python scripts and making extremely beginner mistakes when they ever have to change a line of code themselves.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    As someone that always Reads The Fucking Manual, it's frustrating to live in a world full of people that never Read The Fucking Manual.

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  • [–] -3 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

    What are you actually learning? Coding hasn’t changed substantially in 10 years. You might have picked up some rust along the way but what are you actually reading?

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  • [–] 5 points 14 hours ago

    There is an near-infinite expanse of stuff to learn in every direction you look. Human knowledge and culture is a fractal, even when you think you know everything about a subject there's always more to be surprised by or to do.

    I've recently been reading up on cryptography. That part of software engineering alone can take years to catch up with the latest post-quantum developments.

    There is also always some basic shit which you forget with time. I need to re-read The Art of Computer Programming at some point.

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  • [–] 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (4 children)

    This isn't specifically related to coding. I'm taking about any manual, be it for a programming language, or a microwave oven. Regarding my particular field of endeavor, how many people that drive cars are even remotely familiar with the actual road rules legislation, or even looked at them since they got their licence? See also the people that complain about following Ikea instructions as if they aren't the simplest possible instructions to follow.

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  • [+] -7 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    You’re comparing figuring shit yourself to ai vibing it for you? Wow. Just fantastic. Really going with consistent themes here.

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago

    Offloading individual responsibility / competency is not the same as “figuring shit out yourself”

    The individual who doesn’t know the rules of the road may not have an incident but may also constantly be endangering themselves and others. Your retort is derogatory and lacks contemplation but what did I expect this is a comment section on the internet 😅

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  • [–] 21 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Honestly it's worse, it's not like it is a super power to use it, it produces garbage results, especially for people who proclaim to want to learn.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    It really depends what you're making. I've used it to create a ton of incredibly specific to me Firefox add-ons that do exactly what I wanted them to. Same with small web apps, 5 minutes and I have exactly what I wanted on vercel.

    Yes I could have leant how to do it, but I would rather spend that time learning things I actually want to learn like a second language and playing an instrument. And I wouldn't think anything less of someone that uses llm to translate something so they can spend time coding. Not everyone needs to learn to do literally everything they ever want to use.

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  • [–] 1 point 19 hours ago

    I’m just glad the last season of the boys is getting some love, not that it deserves any.

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  • [+] -20 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

    Y’all are so threatened by such an apparently shitty coder.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    Well if I'm waiting for a bus on a street and someone walks up to me, pulls their pants down and starts violently shitting on the sidewalk, I'd feel pretty threatened despite not really being in physical danger at the moment.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    Are you familiar with biological viruses? A virus' surface structures is precisely shaped to bind with particular molecules present on the host cell’s outer membrane.

    In other words, the virus appears to be a helpful protein by the cell, so it is accepted. However, what's inside is anything but.

    That's kinda what vibe coding is. It's got the structure of something you'd expect, but upon close inspection it's completely lacking nuance and understand of optimizations or code quality.

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