Comment by freedomben
8 hours ago
Seriously. I've known for a very long time that our community has a serious problem with binary thinking, but AI has done more to reinforce that than anything I can think of in modern memory. Nearly every discussion I get into about AI is dead out of the gate because at least one person in the conversation has a binary view that it's either handwritten or vibe coded. They have an insanely difficult time imagining anything in the middle.
Vibe coding is the extreme end of using AI, while handwriting is the extreme end of not using AI. The optimal spot is somewhere in the middle. Where exactly that spot is, I think is still up for debate. But the debate is not progressed in any way by latching on to the extremes and assuming that they are the only options.
The "vibe coding" term is causing a lot of brain rot.
Because when I see people that are downplaying LLMs or the people describing their poor experiences it feels like they're trying to "vibe code" but they expect the LLM to automatically do EVERYTHING. They take it as a failure that they have to tell the LLM explicitly to do something a couple times. Or they take it as a problem that the LLM didn't "one shot" something.
I'd like it to take less time to correct than it takes me to type out the code I want and as of yet I haven't had that experience. Now, I don't do Python or JS, which I understand the LLMs are better at, but there's a whole lot of programming that isn't in Python or JS...
I've had success across quite a few languages, more than just python and js. I find it insanely hard to believe you can write code faster than the LLM, even if the LLM has to iterate a couple times.
But I'm thankful for you devs that are giving me job security.
I think you will find this is not specific to this community nor AI but any topic involving nuance and trade-offs without a right answer
For example, most political flamefests