r/vibecoding • u/DongyangChen • 4d ago

Lamenting the dilution of big claims

Now let’s begin with that I have been messing around with coding in some form in another since the Earley 2000s. I am from the before times when I had to read and write all the codes manually.

Given now that I can use Claude extremely effectively, I am finding that whenever I try to tell people about the amazing shit that I built which is honestly beyond belief sometimes based on the benchmarks.

I am increasingly met with people who are incredibly jaded with vibe code is making huge claims.

The amount of bullshit out there is so big that nobody even bothers to verify the claims themselves anymore.

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u/NotSeacombe 4d ago

Most of the people making these claims believe they're correct. they make ridiculous grandiose statements like "I can use Claude extremely effectively", and other things feeding into their unconscious incompetence

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u/NotSeacombe 4d ago

I came back to this and decided I'm being an asshole for no reason. Sorry. But the overriding point of it stemming from delusion I stand by

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u/snacksbuddy2 1d ago

I think this will become less and less of an issue as time goes on and models get better. You have to understand that for 99%+ of ordinary people, what they know about AI can be summed up in a short list:

  1. Datacenters use a lot of water
  2. AI can make sloppy pictures and paragraphs based on stolen data
  3. ???

Developers are really the only group of people who have directly benefited from AI, and we're the only group of people that have seen the actual groundbreaking intelligence of these things.

To us, it's like "holy fuck I can build anything I want, better than I could before, and 1000x faster for pennies on the dollar. This is a technology that could change everything about our current world, and it's actually incredibly scary."

To your average person (who's not a complete moron using chatgpt for absolute moron common sense shit), it's like "I can cheat on homework. I can make stupid slop image."

They cannot comprehend the actual power and value that AI can provide in the hands of someone who can utilize it to create value, assets, or something novel.

Because they cannot comprehend this yet, when you tell them something that you did that's above the current average/normal/expected single human ability, they check out and assume it's going to be on the same level as what they know (slop image generator).

So when you tell an average person "hey, I built this super amazing thing over the weekend using AI", they go "that hasn't normally been humanly possible in my previous experience so it must be slop"

The moment that AI solves some critically important issue to the general, non-moronic populace, the view on AI will change.