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Yeah definitely not our profit driven models.
AI can do it cheaper… so just have the AI do it. Its that simple, people really don’t like it when things are so simple but can’t do anything about it. So they just make shit up like this.
He still got a point, but premise is pretty ridiculous.
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.
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.”
“you’ll own nothing and be happy” applies to skills now.
Really wish they’d be a direct link to the source, not solely a screenshot. Is this the Web?
Shitholes rearing their head thr last 5 6 years made a lot of people forget , America is also a massive shithole
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can use local models for free, it’s just slower.
And local is usually less parameters. Reasoning on a local model is very poor.
Why would you not want to use all the tools available to be as efficient as possible?
The point of work is not efficiency. If you don’t own your work and you can’t control your data, you are more vulnerable to exploitation. You may not be compensated fairly for your efforts.
I get what your saying but on a personal level I enjoy being able to complete tasks as efficiently and quickly as possible. This is divorced entirely from compensation. Who doesn’t?
There’s a lot of dev teams that have to use local because their code is proprietary and they don’t want it getting outside the network.
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.
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.
I use ai to become a better coder, not to replace me.
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.
It’s like google-coding in 2010; nothing you search for is exactly what you need, but it could help you see why your code isn’t working.
I really don’t dig that comparison. When you look up a snippet on stackoverflow, for example, you can immediately see the quality of the answer, as well as feedback from real people
Yeah like if you start coming across snippets that aren’t even properly indented, you know you’re digging the real bottom of the barrel (been there while struggling to fix email templating I knew nothing about back in the day). Now, the code you get from the LLM looks totally legitimate to the untrained eye, and it may even generate a convincing explanation.
You won’t have any indication when it’s dead wrong until you try to run it. And even then, it may be “working” in a way unintended because you don’t actually understand what you copy+pasted, because neither does the LLM ofc.
I can’t even imagine the spaghetti bowl you can get yourself into if you just keep vibe coding yourself deeper and deeper, while understanding nothing.
The spaghetti bowl is the real problem. You can make something that works, but it’s so fragile because the solution is rarely general and never elegant. The snippet might be surprisingly elegant, but it will reimplement the same code 3 different ways in 3 different places and the whole thing turns into a mess
You can see the quality if you’re an experienced coder. My comment lacks personal context in that I was in school in 2010 and there were plenty of my classmates who would plug snippets into their projects without fundamentally understanding what it did or learning what the project was supposed to teach us. Similar to a shortcut with AI in 2025.
There are definitely people who cut & pasted from stack overflow in the work environment, too. The difference is that I, as the clean-up crew, could google their code and find the post it came from … and then I could read the comments and figure out wtf they thought they were trying to do. When they paste LLM-generated code in, there’s no trace of where the dumbfuckery came from.
Just thinking about it makes me glad I’m near retirement.
that was exactly my point, for the “non experts” googling and using AI is very much not the same, as googling provides them with a lot more actual information (quality, alternatives)
I tried using chatgpt to write a basic batch file, it ended up such a horrendous mess that i gave up halfway through. Fucker got told four times, still kept putting the REM on the same line as actual code.
Well if it helps for y’all to know, if I can’t put my measly webpage making skills to decent use in the course of a weeks time, I’ll be buying the services of a freelancer because hoooooly shite am I rusty.
(I need to update my basic website and am terribly lazy. Maybe making some extra cash would make a kid somewhere happy.)
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