Yes, because I directly typed on that keyboard. My fingers pressed each and every key to make each and every letter of this text you’re reading.
The keyboard is a tool to interface with a computer, in the same way you need a hammer to push a nail, a screwdriver to drive a screw, or a knife cuts through things.
I didn’t ask somebody else to go hammer the nail, screw the screw, or cut the thing then take credit for doing the thing I didn’t do.
Managing a process isn’t the same as doing the process, and in the same way, prompting an AI to make code for you isn’t the same as actually making that code, and never will be.
Edit:
I should say I don’t actually have anything against Vibe-coding itself, apart from the environmental implications of AI, and for personal projects I imagine it’s probably quite useful.
What grinds my gears is when people say “they” coded something, knowing full well they didn’t write a single line of code. It’s like Vibe-artists saying they “drew” something DALI made.
Its fine to do it, but just admit that’s what you did, rather than trying to take credit for a thing you didn’t do.
You only pressed the buttons. That’s hardly any of the work required for your text to show up on all of our computers.
You didn’t translate the pulses from your key switches into USB signals, or write the kernel code which translated those inputs into scancodes, or write the browser code which displayed the form box that packaged your text into an HTTP POST request. None of your work went into the firmware on the routers which carried your data and you didn’t do a bit of work burying the cables between those routers.
I haven’t check but I’m pretty sure you’re not a datacenter employee in Finland so you don’t contribute to the labor required to manage the servers, you probably don’t contribute to the Lemmy project or Mozilla/Chromium projects.
Your post is the result of a huge amount of tools, services in infrastructure that you had no hand in inventing, deploying or maintaining.
All you did was provide a few grams of force to some thermoplastic and sparked a few neurons.
Yes, because I directly typed on that keyboard. My fingers pressed each and every key to make each and every letter of this text you’re reading.
The keyboard is a tool to interface with a computer, in the same way you need a hammer to push a nail, a screwdriver to drive a screw, or a knife cuts through things.
I didn’t ask somebody else to go hammer the nail, screw the screw, or cut the thing then take credit for doing the thing I didn’t do.
Managing a process isn’t the same as doing the process, and in the same way, prompting an AI to make code for you isn’t the same as actually making that code, and never will be.
Edit:
I should say I don’t actually have anything against Vibe-coding itself, apart from the environmental implications of AI, and for personal projects I imagine it’s probably quite useful.
What grinds my gears is when people say “they” coded something, knowing full well they didn’t write a single line of code. It’s like Vibe-artists saying they “drew” something DALI made.
Its fine to do it, but just admit that’s what you did, rather than trying to take credit for a thing you didn’t do.
In the same spirit of pointless gatekeeping.
You only pressed the buttons. That’s hardly any of the work required for your text to show up on all of our computers.
You didn’t translate the pulses from your key switches into USB signals, or write the kernel code which translated those inputs into scancodes, or write the browser code which displayed the form box that packaged your text into an HTTP POST request. None of your work went into the firmware on the routers which carried your data and you didn’t do a bit of work burying the cables between those routers.
I haven’t check but I’m pretty sure you’re not a datacenter employee in Finland so you don’t contribute to the labor required to manage the servers, you probably don’t contribute to the Lemmy project or Mozilla/Chromium projects.
Your post is the result of a huge amount of tools, services in infrastructure that you had no hand in inventing, deploying or maintaining.
All you did was provide a few grams of force to some thermoplastic and sparked a few neurons.