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"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.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Of course. Shareholders want results, and not just results for nVidia's bottom line.

[–] ready_for_qa@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

These types of articles always fail to mention how well trained the developers were on techniques and tools. In my experience that makes a big difference.

My employer mandates we use AI and provides us with any model, IDE, service we ask for. But where it falls short is providing training or direction on ways to use it. Most developers seem to go for results prompting and get a terrible experience.

I on the other hand provide a lot of context through documents and various mcp tooling, I talk about the existing patterns in the codebase and provide sources to other repositories as examples, then we come up with an implementation plan and execute on it with a task log to stay on track. I spend very little time fixing bad code because I spent the setup time nailing down context.

So if a developer is just prompting "Do XYZ". It's no wonder they're spending more time untangling a random mess.

Another aspect is that everyone seems to always be working under the gun and they just don't have the time to figure out all the best practices and techniques on their own.

I think this should be considered when we hear things like this.

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