Comment by peteforde
7 days ago
My issue with this term is that it muddies the waters for people who are using LLMs to assist with types of engineering beyond just writing code.
I've used GPT to rapidly get up to speed with just about every aspect of circuit design, CAD, CNC... the list is long. Coding is often involved in most of these domains now, but if everything is assumed to be code-first, it leaves people who are doing different work with a constrained and apparently shrinking adjective namespace.
> My issue with this term is that it muddies the waters for people who are using LLMs to assist with types of engineering beyond just writing code.
I'm now imagining me dying as a vibe-engineered truck has a steering/brake failure and crashes into me sending flying through the vibe-engineered papier-mâché bridge guardrails, and feeling sweet sweet release as I plummet to my doom.
It's easy to confuse cynicism for humor.
Look, if you enjoy calculating a table of dozens of resistor value combinations for a feedback network that prefers reels you have on your PnP, you keep knocking yourself out.
If you're using LLMs for a large number of arithmetic calculations, you're exactly the problem GP is talking about. If you absolutely must use AI get it to generate code that will perform the calculations instead, so that you can actually verify the result.
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Why can't it be both cynical and humorous? I personally got a good laugh from the paper-mache guardrails visualization