• boatswain@infosec.pub
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    12 days ago

    It’s absolutely possible to learn a lot while using an AI coding assistant; it can be like having a patient and supportive Stack Overflow instead of one that just closes all your questions as duplicates. That does require using it intentionally though.

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      12 days ago

      That’s not what vibecoding is. Vibecoding is literally what I said and not just it being an assistant.

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        12 days ago

        Butting in to say: you’re more charitable than most. These days it seems like having a simple Bayesian/heuristic comment validator installed is enough to call a codebase “vibe coded” (read: silly overreactive moralisms).

        While I don’t use LLMs for code generation personally (yet), IMHO unreviewed code is unreviewed code. It’s no better or worse for being written by a junior learning the ropes, a senior beanbag coder, or the hottest frontier mix of experts.

        If it’s unreviewed, that means no one has taken responsibility for it, and so it doesn’t belong in any codebase without that giant disclaimer front and center.