“I built a thing with AI and I don’t understand it. I want to make changes and fix things and have no ability to theorize why it fails or how to fix it.”
Oh my. See, you have to be able to program it yourself before you can build it with an LLM. Otherwise you have no way of judging the output. AI isn’t going to make you a programmer.
Learning to program is.
Interesting article. My advice is to do it the old fashioned, hard way. There’s no royal road to knowledge, skill, and learning.
> Interesting article. My advice is to do it the old fashioned, hard way. There’s no royal road to knowledge, skill, and learning.
I had a colleague tell me "it's not vibe coding when a programmer does it."
I fully believe there's still value in understanding the internals of software and the patterns developers use to structure it, but I do wonder for how much longer any of this knowledge will be more than of academic interest.
agentultra · · focus · HN ↗
Oh my. See, you have to be able to program it yourself before you can build it with an LLM. Otherwise you have no way of judging the output. AI isn’t going to make you a programmer.
Learning to program is.
Interesting article. My advice is to do it the old fashioned, hard way. There’s no royal road to knowledge, skill, and learning.
JeremyNT · · focus · HN ↗
I had a colleague tell me "it's not vibe coding when a programmer does it."
I fully believe there's still value in understanding the internals of software and the patterns developers use to structure it, but I do wonder for how much longer any of this knowledge will be more than of academic interest.