Vibe Coding is the start of the end of days

What do you think?

Technically everything is, but yeah, not a fan of vibe coding.

Context limits. You can do a hell of a lot until you hit up against context limits. Then the LLM shits the bed and can't do anything. But even then, our job was never writing code. Managers have this glossy eyed optimism that they can "replace coders with AI" and save money, but they don't know what they want or how to describe what they want. That was the hard part of our job. Plus, if the LLMs goal is to make tests that pass they'll definitely pass. If its goal is to aquire as many stamps as possible, prepare to be turned into stamps.

Plus, you're always going to need seniors, and I don't see people progressing to technically senior by telling an LLM to write code.

@atheist rather than an llm replacing coding I’d like an llm to replace understanding what clients want.
And as a bonus, an llm that can eloquently explain to the clients why what they think what they want is not what they actually want.

@atheist I get 4 to 6 prompts at most before it starts repeating itself. This is with relatively straightforward PHP and nginx stuff. Is it just that Claude is no good?

@cuddlyogre I was more meaning the likes of coding agents, they can only handle about 5k lines of code or something, if your code base gets bigger than that it misses stuff.

I think what someone can't understand they shouldn't be inserting into their code.

Small functions sure, but understand what the machine is producing, take time to verify it, to grok how it works.

Inserting LLM code thats written at a level someone doesn't understand is like inserting a tiny genie that lives in text, and may, at any moment, decide to grant a wish maliciously.

@Wisecrack yup, never trust a genie!

@Lensflare looking at it again, I think this meme probably has legs.