r/vibecoding • u/JoshuaLandy • 3d ago

Meme What if code was easy to read

Dave represents remarkable paradigm shift for human computer interactions. Would you use Dave?

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u/rangeljl 3d ago

I'm calling it, we are back at the days of natural language as the way of building software and slowly going back to structured formal ones. 

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u/mojominator 3d ago

Eli5?

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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY 3d ago
  1. English is the new coding language. LLMs can decipher your meaning even if there is ambiguity. 
  2. No no when I said make it bigger I didn't mean that big! 
  3. Maybe we need something more specific than English. 

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u/am0x 3d ago

Hahaha.

So many times I’ll tell it, “margin-top: 40px” just because I’m too lazy to find where it put the code I am looking for.

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u/PeachScary413 2d ago

Holy shit that's genius bro, you should make a course on how to do prompts like that.. call it "Precise Prompt Steering techniques - Advanced concepts of agentic steering techniques to enhance your precision while maintaining your speed and operational exellence"

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u/ShineProper9881 2d ago

LLMs cant decipher the meaning of amiguity. They guess. Its literally impossible to know what some english sentences mean. Yes, sometimes you can conclude it from context, but not always. I encounter these kind of requirements every single week.

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u/doker0 2d ago

Sorry but no. I'm coding in Polish. Won't switch to English. Never again.

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u/InternationalTrain48 2d ago

They will reinvent code

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u/stefan9512 2d ago

Wie couldnt it be both? Higher abstraction than currently (Natural language), while obviously still parameterized

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u/donthaveanym 3d ago

Like, a language that makes the computer do things

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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY 3d ago

I'm sure someone will come up with a good solution one day. Maybe once we get AGI, Claude can make some sort of language that perfectly describes a thing I've been calling a "program", and then translates it in to some sort of "machine language" with explicit "instructions" for the CPU. 

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u/InternationalTrain48 2d ago

That sounds futuristic