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About vibe coding..

Gnio — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:25:55 +0000

I've been trying to learn coding for 35 years, which is my age. I love coding, and love the fantasy of being a coder. I love the whole thing about it. It's not a unhinged passion, but still something I carry very close to my digital heart.

I started with VB6, and excel, and then web and I have never been particularly good at anything. If you ever met someone that loves gaming or sports but are bad at them, that's me. I need to have coding in my life, I'm just not good enough, ever. And that's fine.

I discovered vibe coding because I follow all tech stuff. I've been trying to build certain things for years. I'm not necessarily desperate to build them but I do want them. Discovering AI allowed me to build personal web apps I always wanted to but was limited.

All of the sudden I was able to build all web apps I wanted. I did 8 different projects in weeks. None of these things were for everyone, but very specific, tailored apps that help me at work, and in my personal life.

Kinda trivializes the unbelievably fucking hard thing that is to learn evem the most remote thing about coding. Ive quit so many times becase concepts and terms I don't get. I still don't know what the fuck a prototype is in JavaScript even tho I got the certificate from FCC.

Yet here I am building things that not even my imagination could put together. Am I enjoying it? Yes. Has it been beneficial? Fuck yes. I have been given the tools to create things my skills can't help me to.

At the same time, as a person that have been trying to learn since I'm like 15, I know this isn't something to be trivialized. But at the same time I do have tools that trivializes it and they're available and free and works.

Am I a disgusting person for feeling empowered? This is the first time in my journey I'm able to build actual things with the help of thear tools, but I also feel it's so disrespectful because I struggled for ALL MY LIFE trying to learn it.

That said, since I stated vibe coding I've learn so many shit I didn't even knew existed before. I've hosted pages on cloudflare, I've begin to understand whatever the fuck nvm is. I've actually used the terminal for something more than ipconfig. GitHub, Vs code, fucking terminal stuff? Like, I've been exposed to Soo much, so I'm still learning.

But at he same time, I'm not. I'm still the same limited person. And I don't know how to feel. Everybody seems to hate AI and hate me for using it but also I feel so free using it. Something that I'm not good enough to do suddenly I can do.

So I guess the question of this long ass post is, how you feel? Am I wrong? What about the rest of people feeling empowered? How do you feel ppl can now do things it took you years to even comprehend?

How many times did you give up on learning development?

Gnio — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 02:16:49 +0000

For those that learned development mostly by themselves, was it a one time achieved journey or did you gave up several times?

I'm in this situation in which i have started and progress until certain extend around 5 since I started back when I was 24. I'm now 30 and thinkig to start again.

A combination of hard to understand concepts, feeling stupid, progressing without really understanding what came before, and being generally overwhelmed with jargons I think caused me to quit before.

I wonder, should I even continue? Is this just me or has this happened to anyone? How often does this happen, if it does?

Thank you

ELI5: Functions vs. Class/Constructor in Javascript

Gnio — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 01:29:59 +0000

Hello everyone,

I trust my post finds you well and healthy.

I'm not a posting person, but I'm tired of trying to understand in simple terms what is the difference between Function and Constructor in Javascript. And also, Class?.

Every time I find an article about it, explains by starting that 'Classes in Javascript are not like any other language, and is just for syntax.' or 'Javascript doesn't really have Classes, like Java'.

The thing is, I don't know Java, or C, or any other language. So I don't understand the reference, or what really does that mean. My only reference to Classes is CSS. That what it comes to my mind.

More to that, I recently stumble upon Constructor on FreeCodeCamp. Another topic I've been trying to understand but can't find simple way to explain it. An article in CSS-Tricks 'understanding Javascript constructors' starts: "Having a good understanding of constructors is crucial to truly understand the JavaScript language."

*newbie feeling intensified

And then it drops this:
"Constructors are like regular functions, but we use them with the new keyword. ".

What? If they are the same, why should I really learn this? Why is it crucial? Then the article goes on with jargons of things I can't really comprehend as a newbie in a programming language. And without a 'big word alert'.

Can someone please try to explain me this or tell me where I can find explanation? I already tried the big ones (mozilla, w3c schools, eloquent javascript, css-tricks).

If you took the time to read this, I love you already.

Thank you all in advance and stay safe.