Comment by Animats
16 hours ago
It's about to get much worse.
You can't vibe code without using a service from a big company, and obeying their rules.
If Microsoft terminates your account, your programming career is over.
16 hours ago
It's about to get much worse.
You can't vibe code without using a service from a big company, and obeying their rules.
If Microsoft terminates your account, your programming career is over.
>You can't vibe code without using a service from a big company, and obeying their rules.
In abstract, probably true, but so vague to be useless.
I can probably vibe code with qwen on debian. But are you then going to pivot from your microsoft example to like, my ISP? And if I point out I can move to an ISP with less than 5 staff, you will probably just move the goalposts further right?
Might be better to let you establish your goalposts first hey.
What has your experience vibecoding with Qwen on Debian been like so far? What tooling and approaches have you found to work best?
I use it on Windows, I am just loosely aware that I could run it on debian if I wished. I use 7b and its roughly as useful as GPT 3.5. I dont have any tools linked to it yet.
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I'm implementing an MCP client using Qwen3 4B and its tool call capabilities are impressive! I'm sure it will only improve and the 30B is probably already much better.
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Eh, this I cannot abide with. There are dozens of hosted model providers, from the foundational providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) to cloud re-hosting (Azure, GCP, AWS) to routing proxies (OpenRouter, Vercel, etc). There are huge open source models that are quite competitive (Qwen3-Coder). There are smaller open source models that can run on your laptop and easily help with function writing. There are walled garden, highly integrated tools (Claude Code, Codex) and there are plug-and-play bring your own API key or model tools (Charm Crush, etc). The ecosystem is vast, and every facet of it appears to be getting better.
> You can't vibe code without using a service from a big company, and obeying their rules.
True, but that's also not exactly a good thing to be doing to begin with.
This is one of my biggest problems with AI coding assistance. And how they will shape the development of less human friendly APIs and libraries over time.
Can't tell if this is a joke or not...
What if you just like do normal programming instead?
What if vibe coding becomes 20x faster than normal coding? Are you going to stay old school and write artisanal code?
It may surprise you to learn that some people actually like programming, so yes I will. If AI tools are 20x faster then I guess I'll have to use them to get paid, but I'll be damned if I start letting a computer do the fun part for me on personal projects.
That said I'm not too worried. Vibe coding is currently slower due to how bad it is at writing software. In several years companies pouring billions into improving LLMs still haven't been able to make them not suck. That suggests to me that it's a fundamental limitation of the tech at present, and won't get better until another research breakthrough happens.
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Quantity was never an issue, quality is.
There's no silver bullet in software development.
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> If Microsoft terminates your account, your programming career is over.
Why wouldn't you just get another account?
Age verification laws in the US are chipping away at Internet anonymity. You might not be able to get another account because your legal identity might be required (and can be banned).
This isn’t just a US thing. Many countries require KYC for a lot of online accounts
All major platforms have mechanisms to identify ban evasion. It's not so easy to create another account when, for example, they ask for a phone number.
In the U.S. at least, it is trivial to buy a new SIM anonymously. But really, you should refuse to use any platform that requires a phone number in the first place. These companies make it implicitly very clear that they want to control you and extract every bit of information that they can from you.
Slightly unrelated but GH's ToS clearly only permit one free account per person and I've heard they sometimes enforce this
i'm guessing you've never seen r/LocalLLaMA?
It's a miracle that open-weight LLMs are even a thing at all, let alone as good as they are (very).
You need thousands of dollars of hardware to run a decent coding model with bearable tokens/s.
Freedom isn't free. That is why GPL does allow charging money for software.
Freedom isn't free.