• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    Exactly. Vibe coding is horrible in the wrong hands, but a skilled programmer can utilise it to carry out boring tasks.

    If you’re still learning to code, you can’t evaluate the quality of the output, which will result in wild goose chases, wasted hours and tangled low quality scribble code. If you can find and fix the mistakes, you can actually make certain tasks go much faster. Also, don’t let an LLM write more than 20-50 lines at a time. Finding mistakes in longer segments gets very tricky.

    If you have a plan in your head, you can request short segments like that. If you let the LLM take care of everything, it’s just going to dump 200 lines, and then you’ll need to rewrite most of it by hand. Gradual step by step approach works well, but it requires constant oversight.

    • bigbangdangler@reddthat.com
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      9 hours ago

      Vibe coding is horrible in the wrong hands, but a skilled programmer can utilise it to carry out boring tasks.

      If things continue as they are, eventually there will be no more skilled programmers.