Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI will make coding accessible to everyone, but engineers warn that vibe coding still struggles with reliability, complexity, and real-world software demands.
Yeah it works well for ideas like that. But it’s hard to scale and as it becomes more complex it starts breaking more stuff that it fixes
I vibe coded data transformations in python, websites, userscripts, plugins for stuff
I think everyone should experiment with it. It can genuinely be super helpful. At least for me who have programmer schooling but have mostly worked in ops my entire life.
I think a good number of people have absolutely no idea how to write a prompt. The problem with writing prompts is if you don’t know what you’re doing to begin with, you’re just guessing. That means the AI is doing slightly more than guessing. some people will say “ Make me an app that does this,” And that’s always going to end poorly.
I do find it wildly useful at work for debugging strange behavior. I don’t ask it to fix it, I just ask it to find the location where it might be. It’s usually pretty accurate, or at least leads me into the right direction. The code base I’m working on is a mishmash of many developers and many different opinions and many many different skill levels. It’s often hard to follow all the wires, so to speak.
I did once tell it to write me a cli minesweeper replica in Go, And it pretty much nailed it. Of course, it wanted me to specify X/Y coordinates to touch, but that’s my damn fault for not giving it directions for user interface.
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Yeah it works well for ideas like that. But it’s hard to scale and as it becomes more complex it starts breaking more stuff that it fixes
I vibe coded data transformations in python, websites, userscripts, plugins for stuff
I think everyone should experiment with it. It can genuinely be super helpful. At least for me who have programmer schooling but have mostly worked in ops my entire life.
I think a good number of people have absolutely no idea how to write a prompt. The problem with writing prompts is if you don’t know what you’re doing to begin with, you’re just guessing. That means the AI is doing slightly more than guessing. some people will say “ Make me an app that does this,” And that’s always going to end poorly.
I do find it wildly useful at work for debugging strange behavior. I don’t ask it to fix it, I just ask it to find the location where it might be. It’s usually pretty accurate, or at least leads me into the right direction. The code base I’m working on is a mishmash of many developers and many different opinions and many many different skill levels. It’s often hard to follow all the wires, so to speak.
I did once tell it to write me a cli minesweeper replica in Go, And it pretty much nailed it. Of course, it wanted me to specify X/Y coordinates to touch, but that’s my damn fault for not giving it directions for user interface.