Post #1359933

2026-04-19 01:13 UTC

A lot of the arguments people use against vibe coding sounds a lot like “You shouldn’t use a high-level programming language unless you understand the assembly it compiles to.”

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@pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2026-04-19 02:06

Yes. It’s the same thing, except when I joined the market knowing fuck all about computers, while coding with my cute little BASIC commands; there wasn’t some tech bro asshole telling all the C programmers that their skills would no longer be required. Or at least he wasn’t saying it quite so loudly. Incidentally, I still work with that same C programmer, I’m still learning from them, but have since taught them a trick or two; and we both now charge sinful amounts of money for our time.

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@mabeledo@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 11:41

Except for the bit where LLM behaviors aren’t deterministic, but those of most compilers in most situations are. And before anyone says that LLVM in version X produced wildly different assembly from version Y, it is not remotely comparable to what LLMs do, not even close.

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