Post #39247

2025-12-07 19:14 UTC

I forced myself to use Claude Code exclusively to build a product. Three months. Not a single line of code written by me… I was proud of what I’d created. Well you didn’t create it, you said so yourself, not sure why you’d be proud, it’s almost like the conclusion should’ve been blindingly obvious right there. Does a director create the movie? They don’t usually edit it, they don’t have to act in it, nor do all directors write movies. Yet the person giving directions is seen as the author. The idea is that vibe coding is like being a director or architect. I mean that’s the idea. In reality it seems it doesn’t really pan out.

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@rainwall@piefed.social 2025-12-07 20:58

You can vibe write and vibe edit a movie now too. They also turn out shit. The issue is that llm isnt a person with skills and knowledge. Its a complex guessing box that gets thing kinda right, but not actually right, and it absolutely cant tell whats right or not. It has no actual skills or experience or humainty that a director can expect a writer or editor to have.

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@MrSmith@lemmy.world 2025-12-09 00:52

Wrong, it’s just outsourcing. You’re making a false-equivalence. A director is actively doing their job; they’re a puppeteer and the rest is their puppet. The puppeteer is not outsourcing his job to a puppet. And I’m pretty sure you have no idea what architects actually do. If I hire a coder to write an app for me, whether it’s a clanker or a living being, I’m outsourcing the work; I’m a manager. It’s like tasking an artist to write a poem for you about love and flowers, and being proud about that poem.

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