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[–] iarigby@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I really don’t dig that comparison. When you look up a snippet on stackoverflow, for example, you can immediately see the quality of the answer, as well as feedback from real people

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah like if you start coming across snippets that aren't even properly indented, you know you're digging the real bottom of the barrel (been there while struggling to fix email templating I know nothing about back in the day). Now, the code you get from the LLM looks totally legit to the untrained eye, and it may even generate a convincing explanation.

But you won't have any indication when it's dead wrong until you try to run it. And even then, it may be "working" in a way unintended because you don't actually understand what you copy+pasted, because neither does the LLM ofc.

I can't even imagine the spaghetti bowl you can get yourself into if you just keep vibe coding yourself deeper and deeper, while understanding nothing.

[–] geekgrrl0@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You can see the quality if you're an experienced coder. My comment lacks personal context in that I was in school in 2010 and there were plenty of my classmates who would plug snippets into their projects without fundamentally understanding what it did or learning what the project was supposed to teach us. Similar to a shortcut with AI in 2025.

[–] iarigby@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

that was exactly my point, for the “non experts” googling and using AI is very much not the same, as googling provides them with a lot more actual information (quality, alternatives)