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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • For the first time ever I did some vibe coding this week. I needed what amounts to putting a file in a folder and watch until a file in another folder appears, with a monitoring utility.

    I was very impressed with the definition phase. It was a back and forth about the spec until it was what I wanted. I then let it built.

    This was quite interesting. It set up a scaffold, wrote tests and ran the tests, fixing errors as it went, then went on to finalize the app. Magic.

    Finally it was done, so I go in to play with it. Riddled with bugs. Try to get it to fix them. More bugs. End to end spend a morning doing all this until I gave up and manually wrote what I need in about an hour.

    Conclusion: Vibe coding is a complete waste of time. Worse: in the wrong hands it is dangerous. You need to be a pretty damn good programmer to assess the output, and if you are, why the fuck would you use it in this manner?

    It reminds me a bit about the no-code/low-code evangelism of some years ago. To the novice it looks magical and a world of possibilities, and the road to riches. But in reality you can only use those things if you have decent programming skills, otherwise it’s a path nowhere.

    Need a quick demo? Sure, this might help the novice. Want something for production? Get a professional.


  • robador51@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat browser are you using?
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    3 months ago

    Things that I really like about Zen:

    • New tab URL input, it’s a dialog overlay
    • Tabs opening as the first instead of the last in the sidebar
    • the tab sidebar
    • opening external links is magic, they open in an overlay with the option to expand in a tab. This is probably my favourite, because often I need to open a link from an email, do one thing, then go back to the email. This feature keeps me in the context of what I was doing.





  • robador51@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux distro recommendations
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    5 months ago

    I’m on bazzite which I believe is like a sibling or derivative of bluefin. All based on atomic fedora. Atomic means the base system is immutable, which should help with stability. As mentioned elsewhere, for bleeding edge you use flatpak or distrobox. Its been a pleasure to use, I’m very happy.