“No Duh,” say senior developers everywhere.

The article explains that vibe code often is close, but not quite, functional, requiring developers to go in and find where the problems are - resulting in a net slowdown of development rather than productivity gains.

  • @dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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    206 days ago

    Oddly enough, my grasp of coding is probably the same as the guy in the middle but I still know that LLM generated code is garbage.

    • @samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      Yeah, I actually considered putting the same text on all 3, but we gotta put the idiots that think it’s great somewhere! Maybe I should have put it with the dumbest guy instead.

      • @vividspecter@aussie.zone
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        106 days ago

        Think this one needs a bimodal curve with the two peaks representing the “caught up in the hype” average coder and the realistic average coder.

      • @dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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        66 days ago

        Yeah, there’s definitely morons out there who never bothered to even read about the theory of good code design.

      • Terrasque
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        I guess I’m one of the idiots then, but what do I know. I’ve only been coding since the 90s

    • Digit
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      15 days ago

      All the best garbage to learn from, to debug, debug, debug, sharpening those skills.

    • Terrasque
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      05 days ago

      That’s kinda wrong though. I’ve seen llm’s write pretty good code, in some cases even doing something clever I hadn’t thought of.

      You should treat it as any junior though, and read the code changes and give feedback if needed.