I love the one guy on that thread who is defending vibe coding, and is "about to launch his first application," and anyone who tells him how dumb he is is only doing so because they feel threatened.

[–] suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Nah I'm on that guy's side. His experience lines up with my own, namely that vibe coding is not useful for people who don't know how to program, but it can be useful for people who do know how to program, and simply aren't familiar with the specific syntax used in a language they're not an expert in.

In that case, the queries to the AI model aren't, "write me a program that can do X", it's more like "write me a function in this language that can take A, B, and C as inputs, do operation Y with them, and return Z", or "what's the best way to find all of the unique elements in an array and sort it alphabetically in this language". Then the programmer can take those pieces and build up a proper application with them. The AI isn't actually writing the program for you, it's more like a customized Stack Overflow generator, without having to wade through a decade of people arguing back and forth in the comments about inane bullshit.

Does it save a ton of time? No, but it's still helpful, and can get you up and running in a new language much faster than the alternative.

[–] neshura@bookwyr.me 4 points 21 hours ago

I'm just using AI to get me the damn standard library function I want to use but can't remember. Way faster than clicking through a couple links of a search result for it.

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