It's basically the equivalent to your friend who has a brilliant idea for an app and just needs you to do the coding for it - without having any clue how IT actually works.

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was a joke until someone at my company gave a company wide presentation on how to use AI to accelerate coding and st several points flat out ADMITTED he didn't know what the hell it was doing but you just need to 'baby sit' it and you get useful scripts out of it. I'm a hardware engineer and I wanted to scream at him.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago

It's not just for coding either. Yesterday, my senior director used Google's AI to ask about the architecture to integrate one of our vendor products with our ERP system (usually my job). Fortunately the AI did me a solid and said "This is a highly complex integration 🤯".

Yeah... No shit, that's why so many of us are employed. Shit's complicated.

[–] iglou@programming.dev 9 points 17 hours ago

Now, your friend with the birlliant idea doesn't need you anymore and can ask a chatbot to make his brilliant app all by himself!

That is definitely a great benefit of vibe coding: it's an idiot magnet and frees up our brainspace.