• dbx12@programming.dev
    9·
    7 hours ago

    Wikipedia defines it as

    Advocates of vibe coding say that it allows even amateur programmers to produce software without the extensive training and skills required for software engineering.

    Now if you replace some words you see how absolutely bonkers the idea in general is:

    Advocates of aircraft autopilots say that it allows even amateur pilots to fly large airplanes without the extensive training and skills required for commercial pilots.

    • Stitch0815@feddit.org
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Mhhhh Yes and no

      Should vibe coding be used in critical infrastructure. Hell nah

      But could I could not care less if someone vibecodes a game or the one millionth second brain productivity app.

  • boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world
    37·
    1 day ago

    Prompt an LLM to write a bit of code that does something. Do this 9000 times until it spits out something that vaguely accomplishes this task. You can’t push any of the fever dream nonsense it created into the main branch until you check it thoroughly. In the end you spend more time with this process than you would have if you’d just written it yourself.

    The C suite and the board members continue jerking each other off as they call this “efficiency.”

  • janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org
    155·
    2 days ago

    Vibecoding:

    • go to chatgpt
    • ask it to make an app
    • ask it to fix errors (ad infinitum)
    • ???
    • sell app (optional)
    • get sued and ruin your reputation (hopefully)
    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      17 hours ago

      The ??? isn’t a reference to underpants gnomes. It’s just that no one has ever gotten LLMs to actually fix its own bugs to find out what that step is

  • JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml
    48·
    2 days ago

    If you need a quick&dirty piece of code, you can generate it by firing some prompts into an LLM. You can get a decent result if you know what you are doing. It may not be production-ready, but often it’s a good starting point. This is NOT vibe coding.

    Vibe coding is what people who don’t know what they are doing do when they try the process above, and think it’s production-ready.

  • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1061·
    2 days ago

    It’s using AI to ruin your codebase and build technical debt.

    I think it is very funny and fully support companies doing this to themselves.

      • wischi@programming.dev
        25·
        2 days ago

        I think the most hilarious thing was their public Copilot demonstration working on the .NET source code. They basically showed the world that copilot isn’t ready for serious work.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        15·
        2 days ago

        It were they that have been bragging that more than 50% of their code was written by AI, weren’t?

        Anyway, that’s counted by lines of code, not in number of mini-vans. They can still use a better statistic.

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    80·
    2 days ago

    I honestly thought vibe coding was a joke until someone posted a video about it and then realized people were serious.

    It’s basically the equivalent to your friend who has a brilliant idea for an app and just needs you to do the coding for it - without having any clue how IT actually works.

    • czardestructo@lemmy.world
      18·
      1 day ago

      I thought it was a joke until someone at my company gave a company wide presentation on how to use AI to accelerate coding and st several points flat out ADMITTED he didn’t know what the hell it was doing but you just need to ‘baby sit’ it and you get useful scripts out of it. I’m a hardware engineer and I wanted to scream at him.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        1 day ago

        It’s not just for coding either. Yesterday, my senior director used Google’s AI to ask about the architecture to integrate one of our vendor products with our ERP system (usually my job). Fortunately the AI did me a solid and said “This is a highly complex integration 🤯”.

        Yeah… No shit, that’s why so many of us are employed. Shit’s complicated.

        • twopi@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          That’s exactly the reason why companies what to use AI. They don’t want to employ.

    • iglou@programming.dev
      10·
      1 day ago

      Now, your friend with the birlliant idea doesn’t need you anymore and can ask a chatbot to make his brilliant app all by himself!

      That is definitely a great benefit of vibe coding: it’s an idiot magnet and frees up our brainspace.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    35·
    2 days ago

    Original definition: using AI to create a small bespoke kinda-crap-but-it-works apps or games for personal use. It’s a shitty proto but it’s interesting.

    (My reaction: ooo not my jam but that sounds neat I guess)

    Modern definition: it’s a multi-quadrispillion dollar industry and it’s the future according to some very important board members.

    (My reaction: …capitalism ruins fucking everything)

  • the_q@lemmy.zip
    48·
    2 days ago

    It’s going to an llm and typing in the text box “make me an app that does X” then patting yourself on the back for “coding”.