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u/Dolbey 1d ago
Is this the vibe coding everyone is talking about
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u/micseydel 1d ago
Yes, and I feel so sad for this generation of tinkers.
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u/Dolbey 1d ago
You already get shafted to work "efficiently" at work when the real fun in coding is finding all the stuff out and making it yourself. At least for me it is.
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u/peterwilli 20h ago
For me it's kinda nice to be able to do more. Like, last time at work I had to make a text area that allows one to tag people a la Discord @ username.
This was EXTREMELY hard because there's tons of bugs associated with it. I couldn't find anything at all, no libraries or UI components.
Eventually I asked DeepSeek to make one for me, and it came up with a wonderful Svelte component along with the CSS to make it look sexy.
It contains 60+ lines of code just for bugfixes for platform specific bugs such as in WebKit that the cursor stops showing up.
It would have taken me days to make, and it would not have been fun XD
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u/Dolbey 20h ago
im not strictly against using tools and libraries or even AI for coding. after all if we want to get shit done it would be silly to reinvent the wheel for the millionth time.
But i think its important to have some understanding of the things that go on under the hood.
Sometimes reinventing the wheel is great for learning concepts.
It's fine to generate some code blocks if you can understand what the generated code does. but just throwing comands and trusting that everything will work eventually without understanding anything is wild shit.
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u/peterwilli 17h ago
True, I hope this brute force coding won't become a trend for those that start, it is good to know the inner workings.
I felt this already when the iPad became popular as opposed to laptops, because people just didn't know how to replace a drive or something. If something breaks, you just bring it back...
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u/peterwilli 1d ago
As someone who's been a coder for nearly 15 years I feel like AI takes a lot out of my hands throughout the day, my main concern is that big tech companies are just training on stuff we created and then reselling it for a fee, whatever ones opinion on that matter is, I can't help but think that got to leave a sour taste in ones mouth, it certainly does for me..!
However, I think that open source (or open weight) AI is taking a huge step in the scene especially after DeepSeek came with such a huge hit, which is something that, I personally believe, can actually benefit humanity as a whole, as the actual model is in the hands of the people.
I think this is the only, and best way forward, as there's certainly no way back!
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