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[–] ysaraimay@programming.dev 5 points 7 hours ago

Well... 2 years from now vibe coding will be default.

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

Why is he figuring things out himself? Surely that's the AI's job, right? Right?

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

Show this soydev his place

[–] projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

What cracks me up is that he is not technical so it takes him longer than usual to figure it out :D :D :D :D

He usually figures these things out much quicker but this time he is struck by some "not being technical" illness. As soon as it passes, he will figure it out as usual.

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Listen you can whine about tech or you can start building with it.

And by building, I mean telling it what it should do.

And by telling it what it should do, I mean typing out what you want.

And by telling it what you want, I mean explaining a crypto bro idea in a rant to Chat GPT.

I mean he's not technical but I'm sure he's really nailed this one.

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 26 points 18 hours ago

AI will not replace software engineers, exhibit fuck knows how many.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 50 points 1 day ago

His first mistake is to call it AI.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago

This is what FAFO in public looks like. Gold!

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 220 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've always appreciated the feature of AI coding tools, where they confidently tell you they've done something completely wrong. Then if you call them on it, they super-confidently say: "Of course, here's what needs to be done..."

Then proceed to do something even worse.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Or when you say there's something wrong and the new version is just the same with comments

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. I love the confidently incorrect additional comments explaining in detail how the incorrect code works.

Though I'm usually pretty angry at that point, it is also pretty funny.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

ChatGPT would not let me call it "you doofus" when I point outed it had done that repeatedly. For "policy violations".

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[–] HKPiax@lemmy.world 207 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This cannot NOT be satire, come on. It's too fucking funny

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 171 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don't think it's satire. Miami has become a mecca for crypto bros and "tech" fraudsters.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 7 points 11 hours ago

Lol. When I retire, I'm going to change all my job titles on social media to "entrepreneur" just to fuck with my friends.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 160 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why do those fish always pose with some dude holding them?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ever watched a fish stand up?

They need to be held.

[–] msage@programming.dev 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's like 2 people who will get the reference, but fuck it, here it comes.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I don't get it.

Some blobfish meme short thing?

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] reinei@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

It does not have nerves, yet it feels pain. It does not have a mouth, yet it must scream. And until recently: death only made it so so much stronger!

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

Don't we all really?

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 152 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Bet you $1,000 the credentials are stored in plain text.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 106 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not just plain text, but hard coded.

[–] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 82 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Having a backend is bloat. I do all my DB transactions straight from the frontend

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

I actually build a full copy of the DB on the client machine. That way I can't lose the data, it's all right there and so fast.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

My db runs on the user's browser via WASM.

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[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Classic vibe coder things.

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[–] PapaSkwat@lemy.lol 114 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can I get this emotion bottled? I want to experience it at full strength later

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine needing to understand a thing to build something. /s

[–] AEsheron@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Just speak the incantation of motive energy and light the incense to soothe the machine spirit.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I wonder if the website did the thing where it lists their big customers like a trophy cabinet on the main landing page.

It would probably make a good list of places to sell snake oil

Also love that this is all evidence to back up the premise that building the happy path of an application is generally easy, one of the main skills in software engineering is ensuring the unhappy paths are covered sufficiently. I can say I've started a bank and keep people's money in my wardrobe, I'll be providing the service of holding their money—I'll also probably get robbed sharpish because I'm not skilled in the kind of security needed to avoid that.

[–] gadfly1999@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Any “customers” landed are going to be friends and family, if not just outright fakes invented by leo.

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I wanted to edit my Ghostty themes but found out a lot of the colors are in #hexadecimal notation. I like #rrggbb percentage style colors (b/c they are easy to tweak by hand) and I couldn't find an online color picker that would output that format, so I used deepseek (free) & now have a scrappy ass one w Python & Tkinter completely via "vibe" coding (I call it Clyde Color Picker. It's adorable).

Pretty awesome when you're just some dumbass who needs a very specific tool and not trying to fleece people.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I use AI toolings to generate snippets of bash scripts because I can't be fucked to remember that syntax. Obviously not for anything with high risks or that I can't easily verify. But things like parsing through mass amounts of files

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But... bash snippet extensions already exist. The only difference is maybe it doesn't auto name your variables for you. I'd take that over non-deterministic LLM outputs.

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago
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