| Well let’s be real for a moment here before we get completely anti-AI. Without AI, I’m a guy spending years learning C++ in spare time I don’t have to develop software concepts and solutions I want to work on TODAY. The ZIG project, to me, has a place. Legacy coders right now do need protecting. It’s not people like me that they need protection from. It’s not even language models they need protection from. What they need protection from are the corporate structures who falsely believe that this technology makes them obsolete. The article talks about “playing the person, not the cards” and that thinking has one fatal flaw: the vibe coder is a person. The vibe coder may have creative agency that the legacy coder does not. Look, I still cross up French and Spanish words because I took a year of each, C++ syntax, Python syntax, HTML, I understand their structures but I’m liable to start out writing a Python script and wind up with half a web page and a brutal error message in my IDE environment. Zig’s motivation is correct in many ways I think. I am not really their target audience or their target coder. But I am also not their target enemy. Put the right group of legacy thinkers in my think tank, and the code would get even better. -The Court Jester of Vibe Code |