Programmer Humor

Whoa whoa, what do you want to do, crash the entire US stock market over here?! Our whole economy is propped up by the story that AI is the future and will replace all jobs forever. We've got MS paying OpenAI paying Nvidia, and that's making the line go up.

So let's be cool with throwing around "numbers" that "prove" the emperor has no clothes. Because, like, we gotta pretend he does at least until the next thing that needs every video card ever.

The most amazing thing about vibe coding is that in my 20 odd years of professional programming the thing I’ve had to beg and plead for the most was code reviews.

Everyone loves writing code, no one it seems much enjoyed reading other people’s code.

Somehow though vibe coding (and the other LLM guided coding) has made people go “I’ll skip the part where I write code, let an LLM generate a bunch of code that I’ll review”

Either people have fundamentally changed, unlikely, or there’s just a lot more people that are willing to skim over a pile of autogenerated code and go “yea, I’m sure it’s fine” and open a PR

I don't think it saves time. You spend more time trying to explain why it's wrong and how the llm should take the next approach, at which point it actually would've been faster to read documentation and do it yourself. At least then you'll understand what the code is even further.

That comes up in that sub occasionally and people offer it as a service. It's 2 different universes in there - people who are like giving a child a Harry Potter toy wand that think they're magic, and then a stage magician with 20 years of experience doing up close slight-of-hand magic that takes work to learn, telling the kid "you're not doing what you think you're doing here" and then the kid starts to cry and their friends come over and try to berate the stage magician and shout that he's wrong because Hagrid said Harry's a wizard and if you have the plastic wand that goes "bbbring!" you're Harry Potter.