this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
-22 points (33.8% liked)

Technology

70048 readers
3918 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
-22
Noncoders are using AI to prompt their ideas into reality. They call it 'vibe coding.' (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 2 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 17 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Get ready to be called in to clean up the AI slop.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

And we naively thought Excel files with VBA scripts used as a database was the worst that could fall into that category a decade or two ago.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And get ready to haggle on price because "it's just s few tweaks, the AI already did most of the work" even if you have to rewrite in from the ground up.

[–] Cryan24@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You don't haggle, you just walk away.. there will be plenty of other vibe coders with codebases they dont understand.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

I honestly don't think it's worth it unless they agree on the price there and then, as well as pay half in advance. If they knew what they were doing they wouldn't have used AI to write their project in the first place.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

Yeah I tried it, and it doesn't work. If you were a coder and you knew what constituted good code and what didn't then maybe this would be useful, but I didn't test that because in that case I don't really see the point.

All I was doing was just clicking accept on proposed changes (which is presumably all non-coders do because otherwise I don't know what they're basing their decisions on).

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I like the story’s coming out where the AI puts the API keys for expensive pay per use services in plane text or creates ultra inefficient code that makes unnecessary calls.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

Such a waste resources as well, I can do all those things for a fraction of the cost.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

There was one just yesterday where AI printed "Listening on 127.0.0.1:1234" while actually listening on "0.0.0.0:1234".