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Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating?

63 points · 100 comments · flancrest

  1. monospacegames · · focus · HN ↗
    The lack of respect software developers have for their craft confounds me every day, to the point that I wonder if anyone in software actually writes code because they enjoy it, instead of making money.

    >In that future world (which for some of us is already here), what meaning does the term “vibecoding” have anymore? If all coding is AI-assisted won’t it just be referred to as… “coding”?

    Apply the same question to music, or drawing, and perhaps the answer to this will be easier to see. If AI continues to improve I think it's much more likely that all human-written code in the future will be 100% human written. Vibecoding or any human-in-the-loop approach seems like a very intermediate paradigm.

    Then again this post seems to be a few months old, so perhaps it's understandable that they weren't "feeling the AGI" as severely as we have been the past few weeks.

    1. ctrlkctrls · · focus · HN ↗
      At work I have to deliver and if I don't use AI I'll be an outlier and "managed out".

      In my spare time I can choose to tinker with software but it sort of feels pointless now.

      To not accept the new reality is to bury one's head in the sand hoping it'll all just go away. Software development has been commoditized and the level of abstraction just slid up one more ring. Like when we went from Assembly to C, then C to high level languages. Now cc is Claude Code not C compiler. It's just what it is today. Adapt or age out, they are the only options now...

      1. sevenzero · · focus · HN ↗
        >To not accept the new reality

        Thinking this is the new reality is part of the problem.

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