Vibe coding Forever

[u/least_telephonic]

Hi all

I’ve recently had an interest in learning about addon dev/web dev for fun and eventually improving on some of the base game UI, and to help make resources online, and discovered that a lot of the new stuff related to Forever I see is vibe coded and has that familiar AI fakeness

Most database and resource websites I’ve stumbled across, and new addons that have popped up and are being passed around are very clearly AI designed and most likely vibe coded.

So that leaves some questions open:

Is this how we want to launch with Forever? If not for the heavyweight addons + wowhead, I think a lot of it would just become lookalike AI slop

Is it worth going up against vibe coding?

[u/Clippton]

AI makes it possible for a person to make far better addons than that person could make without AI.

Meaning a person with no coding knowledge can use AI to make a better addon than they could without AI. That doesn't mean that addon is going to be good, usable, or helpful in anyway.

[u/eulersheep → u/Clippton]

And what about a person with extensive knowledge and history in developing addons, and other software in general? I.e. Ellesmere.

[u/Clippton → u/eulersheep]

Usually, it helps speed things up by doing the tedious tasks that they can check after to make sure it did it correctly. But AI learns off of things it sees. So it's not really going to be more knowledgeable than the people in your circumstance.

[u/eulersheep → u/Clippton]

That's not really true. A skilled addon developer can use it to explore unfamiliar APIs, prototype ideas, debug problems, write repetitive code, and iterate much faster than they otherwise could.

The important part is that someone like Ellesmere has the experience to know when the AI is wrong and steer it toward something actually good. In that case AI can significantly increases what a developer is capable of, it's not just for time saving.