As a software engineer, I’m convinced “vibe coding” is just a meme. It’s like watching a chaotic system. You need to constantly be wrangling it back on topic, and keep it from bloating the codebase, in order to get anything done. You may be able to vibe a small mockup, but it will inevitably go off and produce garbage that doesn’t make sense.
It is useful as a glorified grep, and a sort of natural language to programming language compiler for simple descriptions. But if you don’t already understand what you expect the LLM to output, you’re gonna have a bad time.
A group at the web dev team for my company started a Dev Club to meet on Zoom to discuss code info and showcase dev work from them and other dev teams. Being a sysadmin scripter, I wanted to join to get experience in professional dev workflow as a creeper in the shadows. Then genAI code helpers happened and the guy leading it, the senior web dev at my company, started to use Claude and other genAI tools. Now, that’s like all they talk about and showcase. Like 2 or 3 devs decided to outsource their thinking and now that’s all the convo is about. Not even about their stuff, but leading genAI developments.
I stopped attending the monthly Zoom meetings. Not sure how many in there are into genAI, but since it wasn’t my bag, I didn’t want to say anything and just declined the recurring calendar event. Maybe I’ll start my own dev club with blackjack and hookers!
As a software engineer, I’m convinced “vibe coding” is just a meme. It’s like watching a chaotic system. You need to constantly be wrangling it back on topic, and keep it from bloating the codebase, in order to get anything done. You may be able to vibe a small mockup, but it will inevitably go off and produce garbage that doesn’t make sense.
It is useful as a glorified grep, and a sort of natural language to programming language compiler for simple descriptions. But if you don’t already understand what you expect the LLM to output, you’re gonna have a bad time.
A group at the web dev team for my company started a Dev Club to meet on Zoom to discuss code info and showcase dev work from them and other dev teams. Being a sysadmin scripter, I wanted to join to get experience in professional dev workflow as a creeper in the shadows. Then genAI code helpers happened and the guy leading it, the senior web dev at my company, started to use Claude and other genAI tools. Now, that’s like all they talk about and showcase. Like 2 or 3 devs decided to outsource their thinking and now that’s all the convo is about. Not even about their stuff, but leading genAI developments.
I stopped attending the monthly Zoom meetings. Not sure how many in there are into genAI, but since it wasn’t my bag, I didn’t want to say anything and just declined the recurring calendar event. Maybe I’ll start my own dev club with blackjack and hookers!