• jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    I honestly thought vibe coding was a joke until someone posted a video about it and then realized people were serious.

    It’s basically the equivalent to your friend who has a brilliant idea for an app and just needs you to do the coding for it - without having any clue how IT actually works.

    • iglou@programming.dev
      2·
      3 months ago

      Now, your friend with the birlliant idea doesn’t need you anymore and can ask a chatbot to make his brilliant app all by himself!

      That is definitely a great benefit of vibe coding: it’s an idiot magnet and frees up our brainspace.

    • czardestructo@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      I thought it was a joke until someone at my company gave a company wide presentation on how to use AI to accelerate coding and st several points flat out ADMITTED he didn’t know what the hell it was doing but you just need to ‘baby sit’ it and you get useful scripts out of it. I’m a hardware engineer and I wanted to scream at him.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        It’s not just for coding either. Yesterday, my senior director used Google’s AI to ask about the architecture to integrate one of our vendor products with our ERP system (usually my job). Fortunately the AI did me a solid and said “This is a highly complex integration 🤯”.

        Yeah… No shit, that’s why so many of us are employed. Shit’s complicated.

  • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    It’s using AI to ruin your codebase and build technical debt.

    I think it is very funny and fully support companies doing this to themselves.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        It were they that have been bragging that more than 50% of their code was written by AI, weren’t?

        Anyway, that’s counted by lines of code, not in number of mini-vans. They can still use a better statistic.

      • wischi@programming.dev
        1·
        3 months ago

        I think the most hilarious thing was their public Copilot demonstration working on the .NET source code. They basically showed the world that copilot isn’t ready for serious work.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    2·
    3 months ago

    Original definition: using AI to create a small bespoke kinda-crap-but-it-works apps or games for personal use. It’s a shitty proto but it’s interesting.

    (My reaction: ooo not my jam but that sounds neat I guess)

    Modern definition: it’s a multi-quadrispillion dollar industry and it’s the future according to some very important board members.

    (My reaction: …capitalism ruins fucking everything)

  • Hexarei@beehaw.org
    1·
    3 months ago

    It’s using tools like Claude or other agentic AI to collaboratively make an app. It’s a fun novelty until you realize people paid more than you are doing it without knowing what they’re doing and getting away with it.

  • pappabosley@lemmynsfw.com
    1·
    3 months ago

    It’s what in about 2 years, will allow hackers to drain your back accounts through an obvious security flaw in your banking app

    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
      0·
      3 months ago

      What if I told you that with our advanced security AI agent we can scan your code and … Wait sorry, we just got hacked, nvm.

  • the_q@lemmy.zip
    1·
    3 months ago

    It’s going to an llm and typing in the text box “make me an app that does X” then patting yourself on the back for “coding”.

  • janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    3 months ago

    Vibecoding:

    • go to chatgpt
    • ask it to make an app
    • ask it to fix errors (ad infinitum)
    • ???
    • sell app (optional)
    • get sued and ruin your reputation (hopefully)