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by neko-kai 138 days ago
On the contrary, I hope vibe coding revives Linux desktop into a truly usable platform.

e.g. Vibe coding defeats GNOME developers' main argument for endlessly deleting features and degrading user experience - that features are ostensibly "hard to maintain".

Well, LLMs are rapidly reducing development costs to 0.

The bottleneck for UI development is now testing, and here desktop Linux has advantage - Linux users have been trained like Pavlov's dogs to test and write detailed upstream bug reports, something Windows and macOS users just don't do.
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Cthulhu_ 138 days ago
Is the maintenance due to code or due to people / politics / etc? LLMs won't change that.

Also it's a formal system and process, "vibe" coding is anything but. Call me curmudgeony (?) but I don't think "vibe coding" should be a phrase used to describe LLM assisted software engineering in large / critical systems.

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croes 138 days ago
You don't think the current prices of LLMs will stay?

At some point the investors want to see profit.

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rvz 138 days ago
> On the contrary, I hope vibe coding revives Linux desktop into a truly usable platform.

Oh sweet summer child.

> Well, LLMs are rapidly reducing development costs to 0.

And maintainance costs along with technical debt rapidly goes up.

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