I am loving watching the vibecoding bubble bursting and reforming in real time. It turns out it is ludicrously expensive to have humongous billion parameter models generate a whole library of code in a loop hundreds of times per hour rather than, you know, "writing code." Cursor's pricing model finally started to try and operate at less of a loss and people revolted since they could no longer autogenerate code for 8 hours solid, and now Amazon is trying to capture the runoff with a first-hit-free cursor replacement.
Very funny how, to me, FOSS is about creating a credible bulwark of power so that we aren't at the mercy of information giants, but for vibe coders it's like a "how can I get locked in and get got as deeply as possible" speedrun.
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jonny (good kind)
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •Rye
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interzoneboy
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •Kacey
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)CyberFrog
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •honestly the people doing vibe coding aren't even thinking that deeply about the issue, they just see "oh cheap code generator" and immediately jump to "how can this benefit me?" skipping all fundamental analysis of the situation they're creating for themselves
which ironically perfectly explains the vibe coding mindset anyway
Chris Ford
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •I saw the study that said AI slowed down experienced coders, doesn't surprise me all that much. It's a LOT of years since I've coded as a full time job, but I can imagine an amount of time reworking the AI's suggestions to your style and approach getting in the way.
As someone who now only codes occasionally when I need a small something or want to do a bit of an experiment I find GitHub Copilot really useful to get me started on things. Some of its suggestions are dumb, but it gives me a starting point I can improve on. Speeds me up heaps, but can see it would slow some people down.
People with almost no coding skills full on vibe coding for production use cases? Sure it might work sometimes, but who's going to maintain it, who's going to make sure it's secure, scalable, reliable etc?
Isu 🐲
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •Could there be psychology at work here? People who may always wanted to do some programming but were formed by society to think of themselves that they would never be able to do this.
Upon seeing this cool new tech that finally enables them to do all the cool stuff they always wanted they just dive deep into it.