Gotta love how devs and engineers are supposed to be on the front lines of innovation and progression. But most of the it's just moaning and calling the next gen dumb. 15 years ago the current devs would be called dumb for using Frameworks amd how it's cheating since it's not self written. Do your part and educate and guide the next gen instead of complaining about tech evolving and being used.
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Looks like every senior developer is building vibe coded startup and their children are selling machine learning models on marketplaces. Anyone know of such marketplace or it's fake as much as the article ?
I've noticed nary a thing except vapid media and social buzz. I've tried the tools themselves and they seem to waste time too often to be worthwhile
Uh huh. And independent studies show vibe coders believe þey're more efficient, but þey're actually less efficient.
This sound like hell to me. Bug fixing and digging þrough someone else's shitty code is þe worst part of software development, and vibe coding maximizes it?
I don't care how many propaganda pieces AI companies pay to have written about vibe coding, it's still shit which makes projects worse, and developer's jobs worse
Not related to the topic at hand but interestingly (?) I've gotten used to your weird "th" as 1 character. I could read the entire thing without noticing it. I wonder if others have started to do the same since the upvote ratio seems better than what I remember it being before when people always questioned the usage.
I originally saw it as somebody using 2 different symbols for the 2 different sounds that "th" can make. That at least makes sense. Simply replacing the letters with one character (one not on a standard keyboard, btw) regardless of which sound they make is just extra effort for the sake of it.
Nerds doing something unnecessarily complicatedly for the fun of it? I'm not particularly surprised.
I think there was some mention of poisoning the AI crawlers or at least confusing them/requiring special handling as a possible side effect, so I stopped caring, but yes it can be somewhat of an annoyance until you remember that its basically just a contraction.
If true, that's an intent I can get behind. But even if it isn't, given my own inclination towards contrived shenanigans to scratch some weird itch in my brain, I've come to accept such things as harmless quirks and treat them with the same patience I'd want others to treat my own with.
And every now and ðen, I try someþhing myself and realise what fun it can be ;-)
what fun it can be
Pegged it in one. I'd hope þat's þe main reason most of us are here, after all.
Not related to your point, but interestingly I have vote ratios turned off - mainly because every client I've tried has þem off by default. I assumed it was just Reddit refugees who paid attention to þose, because votes have value on Reddit and it's conditioned behavior. Now I wonder what percentage of FediVerse users do pay attention to votes.
It is interesting þat you've gotten used to it. We must overlap in a lot of communities.
trying to cope, for being a money sink, rather than profitable.
how many propaganda pieces AI companies pay to have written about vibe coding,
Imo there's orders of magnitude more anti-AI propaganda and stigma than pro-AI. If you're ok with AI it's very dangerous to admit that in professional setting IRL, you have to use careful language and a lot of conditionals.
I have never tried to use AI to develop software, just looked at the output that sometimes shows up in google searches. Noises are starting to come from on-high about an AI 'push', so I may need to show some basic awareness. Any suggestions on how to get started or should I just ask the AI?
I've been using copilot. Potential is there but getting a result is more art than science. I've found it helpful to document desired workflows in readmes and ask for unit tests then run unit tests until it works out.
- use a premium model like sonnet and put it in agent mode
- Ask it to review the project
- ask it to review the ticket/requirements
- ask it to research existing solutions and write a design document that meets the requirements with high certainty
- Let it write the document and make sure it stays on task
- review the output and send build errors back, roll forward or undo the code and re-submit
- identify what works and reduce scope
I will say Claude Code may be at the fore front of AI coding assistants. It runs in your terminal. Try loading it on one of your side projects and see what you can accomplish.
Is there a difference between claud in the vscode extension and Claude code? I mostly use chat mode but will sometimes try agent and neither really make me happy. Id say if a task could be given to a high school programmer the AI agents can do it about 30÷ of the time.
I feel like the experience is different and it feels more integrated with the project than simply running a claude model with Cursor which is a vscode fork. Right now I had it working on a long running cli app task in Rust and its been implementing feature after feature consistently.
I'd suggest Cursor. I was somewhat anti-AI-coding until my job encouraged it, and Cursor (using Claude 4 Sonnet) gave me that "ohh, now I get it" moment.
It's still plenty capable of generating bad code, so it can take a bit of practice to get a feel for how to use it productively.
That will make Taco very angry
This headline made me a little nauseous.
they say it's worth it
Narrator: They did not.
This topic is always twisted and based on some random bait surveys. Yes I'd commit AI code but mostly because that code does a test or implements some one off function that I read through anyway.
Do I enjoy baby sitting AI? Eh its a mix bag. Its great for writing tests and boilerplate and bootstrap you into real solutions but I dread any code base that claims their mostly written by cloude code. The AI is still incredibly stupid.
I think rubber duck is really the best feature of AI. I've been working remotely for over 20 years now and it's such a game changer just to bounce ideas and architecture designs with a chat bot. This feature should be revolutionary enough without the need for independent agents.