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Comment by mikkupikku

10 hours ago

Bitching about vibe coding is like watching porn. It makes you feel a bit better in the moment, but it doesn't do anything to address whatever problems in your life have lead you seek comfort in bitching about a thing other people are doing.

Yes yes, ironic comment, since I'm bitching about you bitching. Really though, not everybody is looking to spend hours of their life fine tuning their personal coding abilities. Coding is a means to an end, not the end itself, it's a way to solve problems and if vibe coding can get you the solution the fastest then it's foolish to not use it. Doing the job slower with more effort, because in the future you think that effort is somehow going to pay off by boosting your skills, when in the future LLMs will be even more capable vibe coders anyway is very misguided. If coding is the true objective and you aren't doing it to get something else done, then more power to you, but most people code to solve problems, not for the sake of coding.

Comparing bitching about vibe coding to porn is like watching porn. You come away feeling better, but you didn't engage meaningfully with anyone else.

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