A new way to look at vibe coding to point out that it isn’t coding.
It’s hiring a company. In the year 2012, you could email someone with a request for something you want made, and if you have money they’ll reply back over network the code you need.
AI companies just tightened that loop. You hired a company to write software for you. That doesn’t make you a developer or a programmer.
My team has been trying for years to get apps for internal use and we have waited for IT to either buy or make something. One day I just said, “fuck it” and started building the tools we need. I’m not anywhere near done, but the team has started using them, and it’s increasing productivity.
So someone thanked me for coding the tools, and I said, “I’m not really coding. I’m more acting as a product manager. I gathered the requirements from the users, brought it to the developer team, and act as the go between.” I think that’s the best analogy. And like a product manager, I have to take on faith that the devs are doing what I ask without being stupid.
People say shit like this all the time, and it always irritates me.
“We built a house down south.” No you didn’t, you hired a contractor to build a house for you.
AI has certainly made it worse, though. I keep having conversations with people where “I’m writing a novel” somehow turns into “I’m having ChatGPT write me a novel.”
(Unless they mean the new one, in which case I’d say, don’t be a pussy and play the old version, getting soft locked in the water temple builds character)
Could I ask what model you use locally? I’ve got a bunch of computers and vijia cards and would love to experiment with a local model. I’ve never used the subscription models, but I’d love to play around with something secure and private!
But it’s also used by actual programmers with strong credentials who seem to actually use them intelligently (e.g Torvalds) which muddies the water a lot for the general public, and allows these people who are basically the programming version of a script kiddie (leveraging powerful tools they barely understand to accomplish things that look impressive on a surface level, and then misrepresenting the results).
A new way to look at vibe coding to point out that it isn’t coding.
It’s hiring a company. In the year 2012, you could email someone with a request for something you want made, and if you have money they’ll reply back over network the code you need.
AI companies just tightened that loop. You hired a company to write software for you. That doesn’t make you a developer or a programmer.
Yeah it’s more like offshoring.
My team has been trying for years to get apps for internal use and we have waited for IT to either buy or make something. One day I just said, “fuck it” and started building the tools we need. I’m not anywhere near done, but the team has started using them, and it’s increasing productivity.
So someone thanked me for coding the tools, and I said, “I’m not really coding. I’m more acting as a product manager. I gathered the requirements from the users, brought it to the developer team, and act as the go between.” I think that’s the best analogy. And like a product manager, I have to take on faith that the devs are doing what I ask without being stupid.
People say shit like this all the time, and it always irritates me.
“We built a house down south.” No you didn’t, you hired a contractor to build a house for you.
AI has certainly made it worse, though. I keep having conversations with people where “I’m writing a novel” somehow turns into “I’m having ChatGPT write me a novel.”
It’s the difference between: wow this 14 year old developed a pc port for ocarina of time
Vs.
Wow this 14 year old spend money to develop a pc port for ocarina of time
Has he not heard of an emulator?
You can just play it on PC, no port needed
(Unless they mean the new one, in which case I’d say, don’t be a pussy and play the old version, getting soft locked in the water temple builds character)
I have an entirely free LLM I regularly run locally on my SteamDeck. I didnt sign a contract for anything, I just downloaded it.
I could power the Deck running the LLM indefinately with maybe $300 worth of solar panels and a camping grade power station.
Now it ain’t nearly as fast as hooking in to an LLM thats being run on a data center, but that’s tool use, not contracting an outside firm.
We can democratize this technology if we want to, we do not have to rely on environmentally destructive, oligarch enriching cloud computing.
That sounds like a cool setup, what kinda stuff do you use it for?
Could I ask what model you use locally? I’ve got a bunch of computers and vijia cards and would love to experiment with a local model. I’ve never used the subscription models, but I’d love to play around with something secure and private!
Slippity sloppity
But it’s also used by actual programmers with strong credentials who seem to actually use them intelligently (e.g Torvalds) which muddies the water a lot for the general public, and allows these people who are basically the programming version of a script kiddie (leveraging powerful tools they barely understand to accomplish things that look impressive on a surface level, and then misrepresenting the results).