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Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot (futurism.com)
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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 107 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

[–] jade52@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What the fuck is vibe coding... Whatever it is I hate it already.

[–] Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 weeks ago

Using AI to hack together code without truly understanding what your doing

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Andrej Karpathy (One of the founders of OpenAI, left OpenAI, worked for Tesla back in 2015-2017, worked for OpenAI a bit more, and is now working on his startup "Eureka Labs - we are building a new kind of school that is AI native") make a tweet defining the term:

There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

People ignore the "It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects", and try to use this style of coding to create "production-grade" code... Lets just say it's not going well.

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The amount of damage a newbie programmer without a tight leash can do to a code base/product is immense. Once something is out in production, that is something you have to deal with forever. That temporary fix they push is going to be still used in a decade and if you break it, now you have to explain to the customer why the thing that's been working for them for years is gone and what you plan to do to remedy the situation.

A newbie without a leash just pushing whatever an AI hands them into production. O, boy, are senior programmers going to be sad for a long, long time.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Its when you give the wheel to someone less qualified than Jesus: Generative AI