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Comment by abstractspoon

5 days ago

I can't imagine programming without understanding aka vibe coding. Hence I will never vibe code.

What do you do to learn new programming construct? What did you do to learn programming - didn't you write

  #include <stdio.h>

  int main() {

    printf("Hello World");
    return 0;
  }

while having no idea what 'stdio.h' is?

  • Choosing not to know what stdio.h means is willful ignorance, an LLM has little to do with said chosen ignorance, that is a choice because "hey it works on machine!" and when I pushed it, nobody seemed to mind.

    What a time to be alive. Actively choosing to rebuke knowledge because "what the fuck does it matter anyways"

  • no. it was the first question I asked and was given a satisfactory explanation (along the lines of, "this adds things to your program that help it write text to the screen.")

The two don’t have to be mutually exclusive. You can let the agent code and you review it, or vice versa. No different from being a team lead where you don’t write all the code, or even review each and every line of code, but you have a very firm grasp of the code base.