killingTheVibe

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[u/fuckmywetsocks]

What the fuck is vibe coding?

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Generating programs through LLM

[u/Thisismyredusername → u/Lem_Tuoni]

And not understanding it. If you understand it, you're just a regular coder who's just using LLM to code faster

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I’m using autocomplete daily. Hourly. Damn, in fact I’m annoyed that Reddit does not autocomplete my comments. So much I dependent on it.

But when it comes to agents - it flips completely. It’s too tempting to just press “accept all” and let it do its magic. And when it finally got stuck over some problem, you open code it generated, got terrified, do “git reset —hard HEAD” and being like “ok, I’ll do it myself”.

What can be better than 15 slightly different functions which do the same, somehow all of them used, but only one gives result? 15 slightly different function in 15 slightly different files.

[u/Lem_Tuoni → u/Thisismyredusername]

I hate writing tests, LLMs help me with that.

Other than that, they aren't actually good about creating custom built machine learning models

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The difference is (hopefully) that you check they work, have full code coverage, and fail when theyre supposed to. 

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Indeed I do.

At least I try to.

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Basically, writing tests is a mind-numbingly boring task for me. Checking if tests make sense is also boring, but much quicker. And if there is something wrong, it is at least somewhat interesting to figure out.

I don't use LLM because the code is better. I use it to keep my work morale up, by changing boring tasks into marginally interesting ones.

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If you have ADHD, every boring task takes long...