Only for people to start screwing around with his database and API keys because the generated code just stuck the keys into the Javascript and he didn't even have enough of a technical background to know that was something to watch out for.
IIRC he resorted to complaining about bullying and just shut it all down.
Sure there are many more people building slop with AI now, but I meant the peak of "vibe coding" being parroted around everywhere.
I feel like reality is starting to sink in a little by now as the proponents of vibe coding see that all the companies telling them that programming as a career is going to be over in just a handful of years, aren't actually cutting back on hiring. Either that or my social media has decided to hide the vibe coding discourse from me.
As an old man, this is hilarious.
One trick is to write goto statements that don't go anywhere.
So I ran a bourn shell in my emacs, which was the style at the time.
Now just to build the source code cost an hour, and in those days, timesheets had hours on them.
Take my five hours for $20, we'd say.
They didn't have blue checkmarks, so instead of tweeting, we'd just finger each other.
The important thing was that I ran a bourn shell in my emacs, which was the style at the time...
In those days, we used to call it jiggle coding.