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Vibe coding: Empowering and imprisoning

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66 points zdw | 1 comments | 02 Dec 25 23:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.288s | source
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throwaway150 ◴[08 Dec 25 03:11 UTC] No.46187883[source]▶
> You can’t make anything truly radical with it. By definition, LLMs are trained on what has come before. In addition to being already-discovered territory, existing code is buggy and broken and sloppy and, as anyone who has ever written code knows, absolutely embarrassing to look at.

I don't understand this argument. I mean the same applies for books. All books teach you what has come before. Nobody says "You can't make anything truly radical with books". Radical things are built by people after reading those books. Why can't people build radical things after learning or after being assisted by LLMs?

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1. altmanaltman ◴[08 Dec 25 06:12 UTC] No.46188962[source]▶
People can absolutely build radical things after learning or being assisted by LLMs. But that's not the meta they're selling. What they are selling with vibe-coding is that you can let the AI build things and don't even need to learn how to code. If someone truly believes that, then I would say the chances of them building something actually useful or radical is close to 0.

With books, the sell is not that it will create your app and you don't even need to learn to code. The sell is that you will learn to code with this and then use it to build the app (often through a painstaking process).

> Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

Which book tells you that you shouldn't learn to code but leave it to the book?