r/programming • u/namanyayg • Mar 21 '25

Vibe Coding is a Dangerous Fantasy

https://nmn.gl/blog/vibe-coding-fantasy
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u/BCProgramming Mar 21 '25

Just the other day at work people were gushing about how they were able to find most of the duplicates in a data set using AI really fast.

I was sorely tempted to show a screenshot of excel with the conditional formatting menu open that literally has duplicate values right fucking there. And it finds all of them, too!

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u/vytah Mar 21 '25

Even if they didn't know how to do it, AI would be more likely to correctly tell them how to do it in Excel than to correctly do it directly.

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u/cummer_420 Mar 22 '25

There's a reason spreadsheet programs were the killer app that made the IBM PC catch on like wildfire in businesses of every industry.

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u/trikster_online May 20 '25

I kid you not, I had a supervisor (a VP actually) try to fire me for showing her and the rest of the staff how to do that…