Post #2853060

2026-02-16 13:09 UTC

@sjn@chaos.social @gisgeek@floss.social "I think that strictly within the software development field, you may have a point - under the right circumstances." hard disagree, and honestly, people thinking that putting bits of already existing code together until it looks like it working is the same as software development is insulting to say the least. Like, I can heap a lot of actual shit together in a river until stuff can pass to the other side and call it a bridge... but that doesn't make me an engineer.

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@sjn@chaos.social 2026-02-16 13:25

@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @gisgeek@floss.social Yeah. It's kinda funny too, actually. How long will it take (and how expensive will it become) before the "Vibers" out there find out software development isn't as easy as they imagined? 😃 🍿

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@Aron@nerdculture.de 2026-02-20 09:56

@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @sjn@chaos.social @gisgeek@floss.social Funny thing is, this isn't even new. I had students in the past (~2008) who blatantly copied and pasted stack overflow solutions to a compiling program that almost did the things they wanted them to do. Unfortunately these programs also did a lot more, a lot wrong and didn't show structure or a recognizable thought process behind it. These students couldn't even describe what their code, that they claimed they wrote themselves, was supposed to do. Feels a lot like vibe coding nowadays, with the main difference, that each if these students realized that they had to put in the effort to learn their basics to actually receive their grades (Most of them did) and it was part of their learning journey. IMHO this stage of realization is missing with most vibe coders nowadays, so these people never actually start a learning journey.

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