Technology

ok , rant time, from a guy who doesnt have a problem with llms

i hate vibe coding.

when it was first mentioned, i pictured people slapping somethjng together at hone for some weird niche use they have, that no one cares about. but no, rheu want to throw it upon the world and take credit for creating something.

they slam open source projects with useless commits so they can say "look at me, look at me"

In contrast, i have been professionally developing software for over 27 years and i have created stuff at home that i tell no one about. i have contributed to open source and told no one. (unless a groip of enthusiasts asked me to fix something).

i just dont understand the mindset of these people who use llms to say "please help me contribute to the linux kernel so i can tell people i did something"

You can get an AI to plagiarize a bunch of open source projects that people have volunteered time to create, bypassing the licensing of those projects and mashing them together into something that sort of resembles what you want it to do on a basic level and is full of horrifying security holes and feature gaps that may not matter for your particular usage.

So, yes, you can vibe code. That's what vibe coding is. Enjoy.

Fuck AI slop.

Anybody can vibe code, same as anybody can build a house - it's just that both of those will fall apart pretty quickly if you don't know what you're doing.

Anybody can make shit up with a slop generator.

The difference between you and vibe coders is that you might be doing a small project for yourself and wont care if it gets updated, bug fixed and code polished.

Vibe coders think they made a great product that they present to the masses, then just abandon it when people raise some issues.

Prime example: Huntarr.

Only if you graduate from an accredited four-year engineering school with a "Prompt Engineering" degree

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