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Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company (www.forbes.com)

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 day ago

This article is good, a rare exception in the current discourse around LLMs.

[–] Emi@ani.social 22 points 1 day ago (8 children)

At first I thought vibe coding was just coding stuff for fun using whatever comes to your mind. Then I learned that it's just letting ai code for you mostly and just copy paste the code.

Now I wonder if there are some cases of real vibe coding like my first assumption.

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, vibe coding is such a fun term, too bad it's used for this purpose.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sort of like pickup artists

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Sort of like pickup artists

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 17 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The danger here is that many people think that software is all about having code that seems to work when you try it. Those people have never been able to get past "Hello, World" in X for Dummies, so they don't realize all the practical realities of software distribution that are very much more nuanced and complicated than just writing the code. They get their hands on some working code and wheeeee!!! Ship it!!!!

A while back I compared LLMs to lightsabers - and pointed out how many amputees are found in the Galaxy far far away that has lightsabers.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Or should produce "correct results."

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Not copy-paste. Let the ai do it for you. …… else how would we get these entertaining stories of idiots letting ai delete their production database

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are a lot of folks saying that Bluesky's recent outages were due to the vast amounts of vibe coding in their systems. It was days of not working.

[+] MangoCats@feddit.it -8 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

As an "I wonder" exercise... say that BlueSky wasn't vibe coded, but instead was done "the old fashioned way" with 20x as many people taking 10x as long to produce the same product. Over that 10x as long timeframe, would they have experienced less or more total downtime with traditionally coded software? Not theoretically perfect software, the actual stuff that "professionals" building social media sites write?

Also, if they have staffed up with the same number of people as were traditionally required, can those people respond to and correct issues slower or faster than a traditional team?

LLMs are powerful tools, which have evolved fairly dramatically in the area of software devleopment across the last 12 months. I suspect as people learn to use them properly, safely, appropriately, they are going to prove out to be quite useful. In the meantime, there will be mistakes made...

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There was an article a bit ago explaining that most AI companies are making a 95% loss. You know, spending 100, receiving 5 loss. All that debt is going to mean the price for AI is about 20 times lower than it needs to be just to break even. The software teams that came to rely on AI to save costs will soon enough find themselves on the hook for this mountain of debt. Enshitification is real. Enshitification is coming. AI will not stay cheap, convenient and free of advertising.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

People forget this. Yes it has real use in very narrow contexts, yes it may get slightly better, but right now they are JUL getting the kids addicted to vapes and it is drawing ungodly amounts of power and electricity to do so.

[–] ellen.kimble@piefed.social -3 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

The meat you eat has more of an impact on the environment than electricity from AI usage

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it -3 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Three things here:

right nowthey're basically discovering what are real uses and what's frivolous non-value add uses.
at least as used for software development, the past 12 months didn't get slightly better, it got dramatically night to day better.
simultaneously, some pretty significant advances have been made at reducing costs of delivering value. I think this is hitting hardest in basic chatbot areas, getting the simple answers cheaper - in programming not as clearly, yeah it's getting the simple answers cheaper there too, but it's also succeeding at getting much more complex answers that just weren't possible even a few months ago - those answers cost more, but they're also worth more... will be interesting to see where this all shakes out.

Yeah, they are running loss leader stuff, yeah it's going to go up in price when they figure out what its worth to people, because things aren't priced at what they cost to make or deliver, things are priced at what people are willing to pay. The players with the deep pockets are jockeying for control of future markets, they're investing their existing wealth in future power. Let's hope the winners are slightly less ghoulish than our Oil barons.

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[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

Over that 10x as long timeframe, would they have experienced less or more total downtime with traditionally coded software?

i have a homework for you: if you ask professional chef how to keep the cheese on pizza, are they going to tell you to use some glue? once you figure out an answer to that, you should be able to answer your original question.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The term you're looking for is "cowboy coding."

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 8 points 23 hours ago

I resemble that remark - rode herd on a whole passel 'o C back in the early 90s.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

What's it called when I get real high and code something that I can't even figure out the next day if it was genius or insanity?

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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think copy/paste is involved. With vibe coding, the AI agent typically has access to your repo/files directly!

[–] Emi@ani.social 1 points 13 hours ago

That's even more dumb and dangerous imo.

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[–] pageflight@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

No one had the cultural standing to say this looks great, and we are not putting it into production.

Can someone in your organization look at a slick prototype and say “no” without career risk? If the answer is no, vibe coding becomes a one-way ratchet.

This is definitely the feeling at my company. "How fast is AI letting you ship" is the only question management & executive are asking.

the resulting ambiguity will be filled by whoever moves fastest, which is rarely whoever should be deciding.

There's capitalism!

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 10 points 23 hours ago

Can someone in your organization look at a slick prototype and say “no” without career risk? If the answer is no

You have toxic leadership and we have just handed them a mini-gatling-gun with which to shoot everyone's feet off.

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