- Blindly copying and pasting from StackOverflow until it kinda sorta works is basically vibe coding
AI just automates that
- It never left
- If nobody is listening to you then you aren't a tech lead, just saying
- I'd be very interested to know what this community's view on Mr Kiriakou is
He shows up on Youtube a lot, and is always a great watch, but is he full of shit or what?
- I wonder how complicit the companies are? They know "Jeff" is a fraud, but his code is great? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Also Misery
- Yeah that's totally fair
- I've been experimenting with "vibe coding" recently, and it's been interesting.
I was playing around with v0, and was able to very quickly get 'kinda sorta close-ish' to an application I've been wanting to build for a while, it was quite impressive.
But then the progress slowed right down, I experienced that familiar thing many others have where, once you get past a certain level of complexity, it's breaking things, removing features, re-introducing bugs all while burning through your credits.
It was at this point I remembered I'm actually a software engineer, so pushed the code it had written to github and pulled it down.
Total mess. Massive files, duplicated code all over the place, just a shitshow. I spent a day refactoring it so I could actually work with it, and am continuing to make progress on the base it built for me.
I think you can vibe code the basis of something really quickly, but the AI starts to get confused and trip over it's own shitty code. A human would take a step back and realise they need to do some refactoring, but AI just keeps adding to the pile.
It has saved me a good few months of work on this project, but to really get to a finished product it's going to be a few more months of my own work.
I think a lot of non-technical people are going to vibe-code themselves to ~60-70% of the way there and then hit a wall when the AI starts going around in circles, and they have no idea how to work with the generated code themselves.
- Does this go up exponentially based on how many companies you found?
- It was a fun read, cheers
- I guess as iPhones have gotten bigger Apple has put less resources into optimising newer iOS versions for smaller phones
Frustrating if you are a 13 mini user
- If you reverse the order this could be a very interesting Youtube series
- Is a great way of looking at it
- That's good to hear, I remember that "holy shit" moment when I first moved to an Apple Silicon mac, I guess Microsoft are getting there but in a more hap-hazard "we'll make eventually" sort of way
- Define 'fine'
- I guess this could also have a knock-on effect, in that ChatGPT will steer it's users away from topics advertisers might find distasteful
Like it might not want to tell you about negative health effects from McDonalds, if McDonalds becomes a major source of ad revenue
- LinkedIn
- I'm shocked that 3.5 is still supported, it came out in 2007!
All of us are getting these AI tools chucked at us by our managers and being told to do "do AI"...how? Why??
We're in the same boat, we have access to all of the models, all of the tools, the AI budget is there, what the fuck do we do with it?