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by loliver666 304 days ago
That doesn't fit his narrative so it's ignored.
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Haha I'm not that dense. I'll give you counter examples. Bitcoin (supposed to revolutionize the world still waiting), Apple Vision Pro (supposed to change how we work, wear it on streets and airplanes, still waiting..)
Right, so why do you think vibe coding is digital cameras rather than bitcoin? Without that you haven't said anything, just made a prediction about the future without giving any reason to think it's correct.
With Bitcoin I immediately saw that it was a solution looking for a problem it still hasn't found.

NFTs and Web3 were a VC and hype powered rug-pull from the beginning.

LLMs on the other hand can solve problems. Not every problem, not perfectly. But you can solve actual things with them today.

Is there hype? Fuck yes there is. So much hype and snake oil. But there's a nugget of actual usefulness hidden in there.

Nobody's disputing that. The video creator himself has videos about AI coding techniques. It's "vibe coding" - using LLMs to generate code without reviewing or understanding it - that is at issue.
It all depends on the goal IMO.

If you're building "production ready" stuff with logins for Other People and god forbid taking payments, yes you definitely must understand what the code does.

But when I'm building a tool that tags random meme reaction .webm files and finds duplicates from them, I couldn't care less what the quality is or if I understand what it does.

I can easily run it, observe if it does what I want and Vibe harder if it doesn't.

tl;dr vibing prod code = bad. vibing personal tools = good.

I wear my AVP on airplanes. Only thing holding it back is the price…