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[–] Hoimo@ani.social 82 points 5 days ago (8 children)

This, I think, is the real promise of vibe coding tools—that you can learn how to code without a CS degree.

I learned to code without a CS degree. I used a for Dummies book, W3schools, Stack Overflow and the good guidance of a senior developer. Learning to code was never the issue. And I think poking around in the code, experimenting, stumbling on unrelated but helpful answers, before finding your problem, are all great ways to become experienced that are prevented by the use of a tool like Bolt. If Bolt produces code that confuses experienced developers, how is the vibe coder supposed to learn anything useful from it?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago

just python and looking up every single thing i want the code to do "python print text"
"python get input"
"python loops"
"python iterate through list"

and this is why i'm such a diehard python shill, it doesn't require you to write 5 billion lines of boilerplate code to print some fucking text, it's very approachable.

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