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All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme

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129 points Varun08 | 3 comments | 09 Sep 25 22:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cramsession ◴[09 Sep 25 22:47 UTC] No.45190469[source]▶
The trick is that you have to be a good coder to get the most out of "vibe" coding. It works great for me, but I deploy all of the knowledge I've acquired over the decades as a professional developer. You need to know how to architect systems, what data structures and algorithms to ask for, how to design a product, many facets of graphic and user interface design, how to parcel out work, how to parallelize tasks. Even which ideas are worth pursuing is an intuition you build up over years. "Vibe" coding really is magic and I'm highly scaled, but I don't see how it could possibly work for all but the most senior developers. In some sense, it's like writing LISP macros on steroids.
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cortesoft ◴[09 Sep 25 23:23 UTC] No.45190885[source]▶
I 100% agree that this is how the experience is right now.

I don't necessarily think it will stay this way, though. The tools are so new, we shouldn't be so sure that the future versions won't allow non-coders to code successfully.

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1. netsharc ◴[09 Sep 25 23:31 UTC] No.45190980[source]▶
Isn't it a subset of "understanding".. AI as we have them currently emulates something that understands us. If you ask it to write a program, how would a non-coder know if the output of the emulated understanding is accurate enough as code, or a miss?

Reminds me of the joke:

int getRandom() {

  return 4; // chosen by a dice, guaranteed to be random

}
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2. latexr ◴[09 Sep 25 23:42 UTC] No.45191079[source]▶
> Reminds me of the joke

Source: https://xkcd.com/221/

3. JSteph22 ◴[09 Sep 25 23:47 UTC] No.45191128[source]▶
>how would a non-coder know if the output if the emulated understanding is accurate

QA for non-AI code is limited at best to begin with, why would AI code be any different?