Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering
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Re: Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering
#2Why do you think AI is producing low quality code? Before I started using AI, my code was often rejected as "didn't use thing X" or "didn't follow best practice Y" but ever since I started coding with AI, that was gone. Works especially well when the code is being reviewed by a person who is clueless about AI.
Re: Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering
#3I've been using Augment lately in dbt, PHP, and Typescript codebases, and it has been producing production-level code, it has been creating (and running!) tests automatically, and always goes through multiple levels of review before merge.
Posts like these will always be influenced by the author's experience with specific tools, in addition to what languages they use (as I can imagine lesser-used languages/frameworks will have less training material, thus lower quality output), as well as the choice of LLM that powers it behind the scenes.
I think it is a 'your mileage may vary' situation.
Re: Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering
#4Why do you think AI is producing low quality code? Before I started using AI, my code was often rejected as "didn't use thing X" or "didn't follow best practice Y" but ever since I started coding with AI, that was gone. Works especially well when the code is being reviewed by a person who is clueless about AI.
I've seen plenty of mediocre, even bad, code from real humans who didn't realise they were bad coders. Yet: while LLMs often beat those specific humans, I do also see LLMs doing their own mistakes.
LLMs are very useful tools, but if they were human, they'd be humans with sleep deprivation or early stage dementia of some kind.
Re: Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering
#5Why do you think AI is producing low quality code? Before I started using AI, my code was often rejected as "didn't use thing X" or "didn't follow best practice Y" but ever since I started coding with AI, that was gone. Works especially well when the code is being reviewed by a person who is clueless about AI.
An AI agent would never diss the work of a fellow AI agent!
Re: Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering
#6Why do you think AI is producing low quality code? Before I started using AI, my code was often rejected as "didn't use thing X" or "didn't follow best practice Y" but ever since I started coding with AI, that was gone. Works especially well when the code is being reviewed by a person who is clueless about AI.
An AI agent would never diss the work of a fellow AI agent!
Except when it does... CodeRabbit will review my PRs sometimes complaining about code written by Copilot or Augment. They should just fight it off between themselves.
Re: Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering
#7Everybody loathes fast fashion but look at their revenue.
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#8I don't know what fast fashion is, but we definitely get production grade high quality code from AI.
Re: Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering
#9Many of the statements in the article would have been correct in 2023. OP sounds like he is judging stuff he doesn't have a lot of experience with, a bit like my grandma when she used to tell me how bad hip hop music is.
Re: Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering
#10Why do you think AI is producing low quality code? Before I started using AI, my code was often rejected as "didn't use thing X" or "didn't follow best practice Y" but ever since I started coding with AI, that was gone. Works especially well when the code is being reviewed by a person who is clueless about AI.
Guess what, your code may still be low quality, you just have had a misfortune of having bad reviewers.