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by rogerallen 36 days ago
Same as it ever was.
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yeah, remember those newfangled fancy Node.js guys who would just copy/paste from Stackoverflow without any understanding?

Or the Java guys who wrote bloated apps that wasted CPU cycles on garbage collection instead of writing in C++, like God intended?

Or the Fortran / Cobol guys who wrote in those God-damned, wasteful, useless high-level languages, instead of using assembly, like a proper programmer should?

So vibe coding = copy/paste from SO = interpreter with GC = compiler = punch cards. Got it.
Which ones made the money?
Here's a description of a "real programmer" from all the way back in 1983:

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html