No code is dead. Long live vibe coding
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No code is dead. Long live vibe coding
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#3I originally read this as "No, code is dead..." and thought here we go. I agree with the sentiment in this, and seems to line up with my experience with friends and colleagues of various persuasions. Certainly for anything React-like and front end heavy, people can scratch itches like never before. I still think it's heavily towards the "throwaway" and relatively small side of this, beyond that I think if you're not already somewhat familiar, you'll hit a brick wall.
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#4> It turns out people didn’t want less code — they wanted a better way to write code.
Wanting "a better way to write code" is one thing. Finding a way to usefully fit LLMs into your workflow is another thing. "Vibe coding" is yet another thing, distinct from the first two. Vibe coding is to programming as throwing a water balloon full of paint at a canvas is to painting. It works just as long as you don't actually care about the result.
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#5The problem with this little post is, that vibe coding just is not a "better" way to code. It strips development of something from all the fun developing, from circling around an idea, from figuring out something with your own brain, from trying and testing new stuff, from actually working as a developer...
If you genuinely "vibe-code 24/7", you don't develop software, you are translating business logic rules to a set of long explained commands and put it in a black box and hope it works...
Integrating AI in a meaningful way while keeping the same consistency and maintainability of a software project is hard, just throwing EVERYTHING at an LLM has not really worked out in the last few months to a year yet...
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#6The term "production-grade" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Re: No code is dead. Long live vibe coding
#7I originally read this as "No, code is dead..." and thought here we go. I agree with the sentiment in this, and seems to line up with my experience with friends and colleagues of various persuasions. Certainly for anything React-like and front end heavy, people can scratch itches like never before. I still think it's heavily towards the "throwaway" and relatively small side of this, beyond that I think if you're not…
I initially confusingly read it as equivalent to "all code is alive". Perhaps title should be "No-code is dead".
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#8It's the blockchain mania all again.
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#9If you think vibe code is better please hit me up, I have some more garbage to sell you
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#10The problem with this little post is, that vibe coding just is not a "better" way to code. It strips development of something from all the fun developing, from circling around an idea, from figuring out something with your own brain, from trying and testing new stuff, from actually working as a developer... If you genuinely "vibe-code 24/7", you don't develop software, you are translating business logic rules to a se…
That's literally what has been happening forever though. Think how complex the abstractions are from something like SQL to the actual CPU instructions that are being executed on a modern OS.
The thing I'm most excited about with 'vibe coding' isn't really existing software developers making things. It's people with deep domain knowledge who can't program can now build stuff. It's more of an excel replacement imo as it gets into the mainstream.
I am sure that most LLM generated software projects are more easily understood at a code level than the average excel 'megasheet' created by this kind of person, and certainly will be less brittle to a certain degree.