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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: 0s | 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. zmmmmm ◴[08 Dec 25 06:24 UTC] No.46189038[source]▶
This is a really dumb point from my point of view.

People vastly over rate the novelty of software work. The vast majority of the time, it's at least got conceptual similarity to things created before. A lot of the time, being "radically new" is a huge negative. It's a recipe for something nobody can understand or maintain. Almost all software is mild variations on existing things that are assembled to create something new in feature space, but its nearly 100% mind numbingly boring in the methodology of how it is built.