It’s a great thing to point idea guys towards so they don’t waste your time.
Is that “A1” coding for companies now?
I thought that guy AL Jippity was just doing a ton of work. Like a 10,000x dev.
Its a way to imagine you don’t need a developer.
Wikipedia defines it as
Advocates of vibe coding say that it allows even amateur programmers to produce software without the extensive training and skills required for software engineering.
Now if you replace some words you see how absolutely bonkers the idea in general is:
Advocates of aircraft autopilots say that it allows even amateur pilots to fly large airplanes without the extensive training and skills required for commercial pilots.
When you go to the ER & just start vibe-coding so now the nurses have to debug you.
/s
Neither do vibe coders.
Prompt an LLM to write a bit of code that does something. Do this 9000 times until it spits out something that vaguely accomplishes this task. You can’t push any of the fever dream nonsense it created into the main branch until you check it thoroughly. In the end you spend more time with this process than you would have if you’d just written it yourself.
The C suite and the board members continue jerking each other off as they call this “efficiency.”
Vibecoding:
- go to chatgpt
- ask it to make an app
- ask it to fix errors (ad infinitum)
- ???
- sell app (optional)
- get sued and ruin your reputation (hopefully)
The ??? isn’t a reference to underpants gnomes. It’s just that no one has ever gotten LLMs to actually fix its own bugs to find out what that step is
Largely accurate apart from special-purpose tools usually being employed instead of ChatGPT
ask it to fix errors (ad infinitum)
Same thing. Coding agents just automate the third step and waste even more money and energy.
If you need a quick&dirty piece of code, you can generate it by firing some prompts into an LLM. You can get a decent result if you know what you are doing. It may not be production-ready, but often it’s a good starting point. This is NOT vibe coding.
Vibe coding is what people who don’t know what they are doing do when they try the process above, and think it’s production-ready.
It’s using AI to ruin your codebase and build technical debt.
I think it is very funny and fully support companies doing this to themselves.
The Microsoft way. gestures at the last several patch Tuesdays
I think the most hilarious thing was their public Copilot demonstration working on the .NET source code. They basically showed the world that copilot isn’t ready for serious work.
It were they that have been bragging that more than 50% of their code was written by AI, weren’t?
Anyway, that’s counted by lines of code, not in number of mini-vans. They can still use a better statistic.
are… you having a stroke? Blink twice if you need an ambo.
Kids this days won’t even get a dated reference…
I honestly thought vibe coding was a joke until someone posted a video about it and then realized people were serious.
It’s basically the equivalent to your friend who has a brilliant idea for an app and just needs you to do the coding for it - without having any clue how IT actually works.
I thought it was a joke until someone at my company gave a company wide presentation on how to use AI to accelerate coding and st several points flat out ADMITTED he didn’t know what the hell it was doing but you just need to ‘baby sit’ it and you get useful scripts out of it. I’m a hardware engineer and I wanted to scream at him.
It’s not just for coding either. Yesterday, my senior director used Google’s AI to ask about the architecture to integrate one of our vendor products with our ERP system (usually my job). Fortunately the AI did me a solid and said “This is a highly complex integration 🤯”.
Yeah… No shit, that’s why so many of us are employed. Shit’s complicated.
That’s exactly the reason why companies what to use AI. They don’t want to employ.
Now, your friend with the birlliant idea doesn’t need you anymore and can ask a chatbot to make his brilliant app all by himself!
That is definitely a great benefit of vibe coding: it’s an idiot magnet and frees up our brainspace.
Original definition: using AI to create a small bespoke kinda-crap-but-it-works apps or games for personal use. It’s a shitty proto but it’s interesting.
(My reaction: ooo not my jam but that sounds neat I guess)
Modern definition: it’s a multi-quadrispillion dollar industry and it’s the future according to some very important board members.
(My reaction: …capitalism ruins fucking everything)
It’s going to an llm and typing in the text box “make me an app that does X” then patting yourself on the back for “coding”.
imagine your mom using an llm to write an app…
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Bruh, chill
lol ok
Aw, look. It has no idea why the Fediverse is so quiet… No clue that it’s just getting insta-blocked by every single passerby. That’s so pitiful. Aww. 🤣
Oh is that what it is…
* awkwardly zips up pants *
vibe coding is very dirty.
Wait. it’s not a new dating buzzword invented by VICE to generate click baits?
I doubt it.