It’s mostly beginners thinking of it as a shortcut to making software without learning any of the underlying theory. Basically, why struggle your way through a Rust tutorial on fighting the borrow checker when you can just get AI to do it? Though the issue is as soon as there’s something too complex for the AI to figure out, you’re out of luck because you’ve been deliberately avoiding learning the necessary concepts to fix it yourself.
As for whether serious people are pushing it, most actual software engineers, not really, but company management would absolutely like nothing more than to replace all their developers with AI, so yes they’re pushing it pretty hard.
Right now it’s just buzz and empty promises to not sound “left behind” to shareholders.
Even if it could generate code that could be massaged into a production-ready state at a cost less than having human-only developers (colour me skeptical), I think middle-management would actively sabotage it. You can’t fill your day with pointless meetings when your developers are AI agents.
So, I actually think the idea is only taken “seriously” at the very highest levels. I expect several layers of resistance even before it hits the actual engineers… Not because it’s a fantasy with no grounding in engineering reality which is ultimately doomed to fail, merely out of self-preservation.
The term was coined by an OpenAI co-founder. No idea, if I would call the OpenAI folks “serious”, but it’s not just a derogatory term, like you might think.
Two days ago I watched a video by Explosions&Ire (PhD) when he began adding unknown amounts of chemicals he thought might work to produce a color change to his solution. He lamented that what he was doing amounted to “Vibe Chemistry.” In that moment I understood how inappropriate it was for a skilled programmer to do vibe coding.
I’m not sure I even really understand what “vibe coding” even means.
Telling an LLM what you want the program to do and blindly trusting whatever it outputs, basically.
Are serious people really pushing that?
It’s mostly beginners thinking of it as a shortcut to making software without learning any of the underlying theory. Basically, why struggle your way through a Rust tutorial on fighting the borrow checker when you can just get AI to do it? Though the issue is as soon as there’s something too complex for the AI to figure out, you’re out of luck because you’ve been deliberately avoiding learning the necessary concepts to fix it yourself.
As for whether serious people are pushing it, most actual software engineers, not really, but company management would absolutely like nothing more than to replace all their developers with AI, so yes they’re pushing it pretty hard.
Right now it’s just buzz and empty promises to not sound “left behind” to shareholders.
Even if it could generate code that could be massaged into a production-ready state at a cost less than having human-only developers (colour me skeptical), I think middle-management would actively sabotage it. You can’t fill your day with pointless meetings when your developers are AI agents.
So, I actually think the idea is only taken “seriously” at the very highest levels. I expect several layers of resistance even before it hits the actual engineers… Not because it’s a fantasy with no grounding in engineering reality which is ultimately doomed to fail, merely out of self-preservation.
Pentesters must have dollar signs in their eyes like a Looney tunes character
So, lazier script kiddies?
The term was coined by an OpenAI co-founder. No idea, if I would call the OpenAI folks “serious”, but it’s not just a derogatory term, like you might think.
Sticking a vibrating egg up your ass while you code. The debugger controls the speed in inverse proportion to the number of syntax errors.
Two days ago I watched a video by Explosions&Ire (PhD) when he began adding unknown amounts of chemicals he thought might work to produce a color change to his solution. He lamented that what he was doing amounted to “Vibe Chemistry.” In that moment I understood how inappropriate it was for a skilled programmer to do vibe coding.