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The vibecoders are becoming sentient (waterloolemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago (4 children)

what vibe coding? do i really want to know?

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[+] zeropointone@lemmy.world 261 points 1 week ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (7 children)

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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Are you saying the comment is fake, or the sentiment? This was actually posted to reddit: https://archive.is/U9ntj

[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 157 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fake in that it's almost assuredly written and posted by someone who is actively anti-vibe coding and this is a troll on the true believers.

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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's strange, but I've seen lots of comments that are not aware this is fake. The ai hater crowd is using it as their proof, the other side saying he is using it wrong.

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[–] andioop@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is that what the weird extra width on some letters is, artifacts from some AI generating the post?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, the phrasing makes it clear someone wrote a fictional account of becoming self aware that the output of vibe coding isn't maintainable as it scales.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I'm entirely too trusting and would like to know what about the phrasing tips you off that it's fictional. Back on Reddit I remember so many claims about posts being fake and I was never able to tease out what distinguished the "omg fake! r/thathappened" posts from the ones that weren't accused of that, and I feel this is a skill I should be able to have on some level. Although taking an amusing post that wasn't real as real doesn't always have bad consequences.

But I mostly asked because I'm curious about the weird extra width on letters.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When something is too "on the nose," for example, it's written in exactly the way that would induce the most cheering and virality because it appeals so much to one group of people, it's worth considering it may have been written to provoke exactly that reaction.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thanks!

I really wish people did not do this. This isn't something I was ever taught to look for, and I like to think I got a good education. I was taught to make sure my source is credible, to consider biases and spin and what things are facts and what is just opinion, but I wasn't taught to look for a lot of deception people call out online. But I guess I have to live with this and gain the skill to look for deception. Genuinely, thanks for helping me, since I don't think I ever would have figured out what raises "fake" flags in most peoples' heads on my own.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

AmidFuror's description is on point and I see it as a variant of Poe's Law. Instead of sarcasm being mistaken for a real belief, it is presenting a fictional account of someone being self aware that is mistaken for someone actually becoming self aware.

There are two lines that make me absolutely certain it is written by someone who it not a vibe coder and is leaning into the sarcasm.

'pulling out my wallet for someone that knows what they are doing' implies the poster knows they don't know what they are doing
'vibe coding is just roleplaying for guys who want to feel like hackers' is a joke I've seen directed at vibe coders more than once

Keep in mind that not all deception is malicious, but most people see the word deception as having a negative implication. An actor/actress pretending to be someone else is technically deceptive the same way as whoever wrote this hilarious post. They are presenting a fictional account for an audience.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are right about the thespian thing, but when you watch TV/film/theatre everyone is in on the "joke" and we all know they're not really falling in love, getting murdered, or whatever dramatic happening. I'm not sure if OOP is just trying to entertain and expects everyone to realize they're joking, which would stick them on the thespian side, or if they have other motives. But hey, interesting point to bring up!

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

r/thatHappened was the worst thing to happen to Reddit and I sincerely hate whoever created that sub

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 148 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

I don’t really care about vibe coders but as a dev with just under 2 decades in the field:

Your vibe coding shit will not go to prod until humans fully review it
You better review it yourself first before offloading that massive mental drain to someone else (which means you still need to have some semblance of programming skills). Don’t open a PR with 250 files in it and then tell someone else to validate it.
Use more context. Don’t give it vague ass prompts.
Don’t use auto-accept. That’s just lazy asshole shit.

I can’t stress this enough: if you give me a PR with tons of new files and expect me to review it when you didn’t even review it yourself, I will 100% reject it and make you do it. If it’s all dumped into a single commit, I will whip your computer into the nearest body of water and tell you to go fish it out.

I don’t care what AI tool wrote your code. You’re still responsible for it and I will blame you.

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[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why does this image look like an AI-generated screenshot? The letter spacing and weights are all wrong.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a real post on Reddit. I don't know what combination of screenshotting/uploading tools leads to this kind of mangling, but I've seen it in screenshots from Android, too. The artifacts seem to run down in straight vertical lines, so maybe slight scaling with a nearest-neighbor algorithm (in 2025?!?) plus a couple levels of JPEG compression? It looks really weird.

I'm curious. If anyone knows, please enlighten me!

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[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

probably

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Best erotic story ever on !DevsGoneWild@lemmynsfw.com <3

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish that was a real sub

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Somebody make this a sub pls

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's like the nerd version of Synthol body 'builders'.

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[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its just funny that it ends up costing more time

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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bruh yer not doing it right. Are you stupid, bruh? You gotta work on yer promps, bruh. You gotta watch some tiktoks on it, bruh. Bruh, go watch @demisets4, bruh. Learn to prompt, bruh. Your not good at it, bruh. Bruh, you should try something else if you can't figure it out that's a you problem, bruh.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The next model will fix it all!

[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

This is my new slack pfp

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