Comment by cpursley
7 days ago
Yep, and it allows them to build POCs that they can pass to "real" devs in a way that was not possible before.
7 days ago
Yep, and it allows them to build POCs that they can pass to "real" devs in a way that was not possible before.
Real devs excel at writing software for hundreds, thousands, millions of users with fractal use cases and feature needs.
LLMs excel at writing software for one or a handful of users with a very narrow but very well defined use cases.
I don't need an LLM to write Excel.exe for keeping track of 20 employee's hours. A simple GUI on a SQLite database can easily do that.
Yes!
We're about to enter a world where everyone has their own custom software for their specific use cases. Each of these is relatively simple, yet they may replace something complex. Excel is complex because it needs to handle everyone's use cases, but for any one particular spreadsheet, you could pretty easily vibe-code a replacement that does that one spreadsheet's job better than Excel can.
I've also found that vibe-coding a presentation as a React app is better than using Power Point.