In the 80s you could "vibe code" by copying lines of basic out of a magazine and then change values to play.
If you didn't care about learning *how* the program worked you wouldn't learn. Many people did not, but some did.
The same happened on stack overflow, where you could copy paste random solutions or go to the docs often linked from the solution and learn *why* it worked. Many people did not, some did.
The doom and gloom around vibe coding is a proxy for FUD around generative AI mixed with some misplaced sage-like nostalgia.
People who want to learn to program will still learn to program. Only they have way better tools to do so and could progress in capability much faster.
To me, this post getting upvoted is a strangely implies there's no professional SWE gate-keeping to the generative AI coding assistance Luddism, only a shared sense of authenticity.
I suspect these posts get attention from people who have not put in the work to learn how to use generative AI for their hard SWE problems and so presume it is mostly enabling crap because they have yet to study it enough to make it do better than that in their own workstreams.
If you're in the older set, maybe you remember what it was like to get drivers working for DOS on your new CD ROM and how much you put into that effort. Put that effort into using gen ai and you may stop seeing it only as a thing that biz will use to destroy the SWE profession.
If you didn't care about learning *how* the program worked you wouldn't learn. Many people did not, but some did.
The same happened on stack overflow, where you could copy paste random solutions or go to the docs often linked from the solution and learn *why* it worked. Many people did not, some did.
The doom and gloom around vibe coding is a proxy for FUD around generative AI mixed with some misplaced sage-like nostalgia.
People who want to learn to program will still learn to program. Only they have way better tools to do so and could progress in capability much faster.
To me, this post getting upvoted is a strangely implies there's no professional SWE gate-keeping to the generative AI coding assistance Luddism, only a shared sense of authenticity.
I suspect these posts get attention from people who have not put in the work to learn how to use generative AI for their hard SWE problems and so presume it is mostly enabling crap because they have yet to study it enough to make it do better than that in their own workstreams.
If you're in the older set, maybe you remember what it was like to get drivers working for DOS on your new CD ROM and how much you put into that effort. Put that effort into using gen ai and you may stop seeing it only as a thing that biz will use to destroy the SWE profession.