Post #2016564

2026-04-28 20:11 UTC

At first I thought vibe coding was just coding stuff for fun using whatever comes to your mind. Then I learned that it’s just letting ai code for you mostly and just copy paste the code. Now I wonder if there are some cases of real vibe coding like my first assumption.

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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2026-04-28 21:31

The danger here is that many people think that software is all about having code that seems to work when you try it. Those people have never been able to get past “Hello, World” in X for Dummies, so they don’t realize all the practical realities of software distribution that are very much more nuanced and complicated than just writing the code. They get their hands on some working code and wheeeee!!! Ship it!!! A while back I compared LLMs to lightsabers - and pointed out how many amputees are found in the Galaxy far far away that has lightsabers.

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@Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 16:44

Hobby programming.

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@LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 2026-04-28 20:45

Yeah, vibe coding is such a fun term, too bad it's used for this purpose.

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@AA5B@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 22:37

Not copy-paste. Let the ai do it for you. …… else how would we get these entertaining stories of idiots letting ai delete their production database

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@grue@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 20:27

The term you're looking for is "cowboy coding."

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@apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 21:21

There are a lot of folks saying that Bluesky's recent outages were due to the vast amounts of vibe coding in their systems. It was days of not working.

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@otp@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-28 21:52

I don't think copy/paste is involved. With vibe coding, the AI agent typically has access to your repo/files directly!

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@Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-28 22:25

What's it called when I get real high and code something that I can't even figure out the next day if it was genius or insanity?

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