[noosphr]

After putting off learning JS for a decade, I finally bit the bullet since I can talk to an LLM about it while going through the slog of getting a mental model up and running.

After a month, I can say that the inmates run that whole ecosystem, from the language spec, to the interpreter, to packaging. And worse, the tools for everyone else have to cater to them.

I can see why someone who has never had a stable foundation to build a project on would view vibe coding as a good idea. When you're working in an ecosystem where any project can break at any time because some dependency pushed a breaking minor version bundled with a security fix for a catastrophic exploit, rolling the LLM gacha to see if it can get it working isn't the worst idea.

[skeeter2020]

since you mention JS specifically, I think it's important to seperate that from the framework ecosystem. I'd suspect that most LLMs don't which is part of the problem. I had a similar experience with Python lately, where the LLM-generated code (once I could get it to run) resulted in code that I would generously evaluate as "Excel VBA Macro quality". It does the task - for now - but I didn't learn much about what production-grade python would look like.

[tanseydavid]

Interview with a Senior JS Developer (satire)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3cL4nrGOk

(you've probably already seen it--everyone else has. But if not, you're in for a treat)