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Discussion on: Vibe Coding: Redefining Creativity or Eroding the Soul of Programming?

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Wynand Pieters

I've been thinking about this a lot and have been meaning to post about it. I feel like the takeaway people took from Andrej's post was off base. Most of what people discuss is just the "hands free no code" part of it, which I think is great, not just because it lowers the barrier to entry but also because it's an accessibility tool for people who couldn't code otherwise.

The part I don't like and the part that has me worried, it the bit that actually makes it a vibe...

I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it.

That's just lazy and dangerous, especially if you don't know what you are doing, and that just seems like a terrible idea to me.