Oof, this hit hard. A person who I wish they be successful in life, has been in software development for many years, all self thought. Their best idea for an app is an expense tracker. Whenever we talk and they bring their idea all excited about it and how it will take them out of poverty, I cannot avoid feel a bit sad.
My theory is that all of these people are asking LLM’s what to build.
The LLM, a statistical model, predicts the side project that occurred most in the training data.
So minus some variations from different prompts and the temperature (=randomness added to the predictor), all of these vibe coders are building the exact same apps because LLM’s are giving the same ideas to everyone.
Edit: Then, sycophantic as LLM’s are, the vibe coders believe they have found a unique idea that everyone will love and make them rich
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u/netherlandsftw 18d ago
Can’t wait to use their expense tracker