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.
Y’all are so threatened by such an apparently shitty coder.
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.
I think it’s funny to point and laugh.
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.
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.
Now that ai allows you to create stuff faster, did you get a decrease in work hours for the same month rate?
Your point about learning the guitar only stands if you say yes here.
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”.
I don’t understand people who don’t have a desire to learn. Learning is fun and rewarding. The feeling when you can start putting the thing you learned into practical uses for yourself is amazing.
Its putting me off learning to code properly if anything. I’m cripplingly thin-skinned so until recently I only had to deal with elitism from people who already know what they’re doing. You ask for help and instead of showing you what is wrong, or give you advice on what to learn first, they just rip you apart using words you’ve never heard before.
Now you’ve got people on the other end of the scale looking down their nose at your puny creation. Not because they know the answer to your problem, but because you spent all week trying to do that and they did in 2 minutes bro.
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.
I wrote a 60 page manual for the machine my code runs on and I have talked to a total of one (1) person who actually checked the manual for his problem before calling us for help.
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?
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.
You’re comparing figuring shit yourself to ai vibing it for you? Wow. Just fantastic. Really going with consistent themes here.
What are the two themes to you? Because I see
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I didn’t learn it so I can’t do it
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You should always learn it
Seems pretty consistent to me
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