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All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme

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129 points Varun08 | 2 comments | 09 Sep 25 22:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hoppp ◴[09 Sep 25 22:41 UTC] No.45190403[source]▶
Most people who vibe code will never make anything meaningful.

Low effort in -> low effort out

I can actually code so no point in vibing.

To vibe means to never look at the code, where is the fun in that?

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1. turtlebits ◴[09 Sep 25 23:26 UTC] No.45190924[source]▶
Not all coding is interesting, I would say the majority of it is a chore.

One shotting small utilities that I have no interest in writing (for me, front-end JS, chrome extensions, web scraping selectors) is wonderful. I just vibe coded a "crop a pdf" web UI and it worked with no intervention. It doesn't have to be meaningful, just useful.

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2. netsharc ◴[09 Sep 25 23:35 UTC] No.45191013[source]▶
Yeah, it's very convenient to ask an LLM to generate e.g. a "Hello World" browser extension and then to gradually fill it with logic. Searching for tutorials gets you outdated resources, poorly written ones and obscure failures.

Then again, I asked ChatGPT moons ago to generate a Filebeat config file, and its output contained syntax errors...