Comment by danielbln
3 days ago
What is an essential tool? IDE? Editor? Pencil? Can I scratch my code into a French cave wall if I want to be a senior developer?
3 days ago
What is an essential tool? IDE? Editor? Pencil? Can I scratch my code into a French cave wall if I want to be a senior developer?
I think it is very simple to draw the line at "something that tries to write for you", you know, an agent by definition. I am beginning to realize people simply would prefer to manage, even if the things they end up managing aren't actually humans. So it creates a nice live action role-play situation.
A better name for vibecoding would be larpcoding, because you are doing a live action role-play of managing a staff of engineers.
Now not only even a junior engineer can become a manager, they will start off their careers managing instead of doing. Terrifying.
It’s not a clear line though. Compilers have been writing programs for us. The plaintext programming language code that we talk about is but a spec for the actual program.
From this perspective, English-as-spec is a natural progression in the direction we’ve been going all along.