| I asked one of my friends to show me his video conversion application which worked via a web frontend. The instant I opened it my CPU fans started spinning so I checked and the page was using 300% CPU because it was updating the background gradient on an invisible element, in JavaScript, every frame, as fast as possible. That was very entertaining. As far as the end of computer programming goes... Step 1. Wow, I just vibe coded an application and it works! I'm going to write a blog about it and tell everyone how awesome AI is, much hype Step 2. Vibe coded application faces inevitable problems, the perfect application is a fairytale after all. The only way to "fix" the application is spam tokens at the problem and pray. Step 3. Author does not write a new blog post to report on this eventuality... probably because they feel embarrassed about how optimistic they were Step 4. Perhaps author manages to fix application, awesome... then what about a year from now, author needs to update the application because a dependency has a security problem. The application is so needlessly complex that they don't even know when to begin. Step 5. They boot up Claude Code, which their business is now 100% dependent on, but they're charging 10x the original cost per token. It's not like they have a contract, so user has to either eat the cost or give up Step 6. User tries local model on their 1080 ti but they can barely run entry-level models Step 7. Woops Personally I think it's impossible to convince these people, the results will speak for themselves eventually. |