I find it strange that many people think there’s no technical reasons to oppose vibe coding.
Every opposition to it is quickly denounced with strawman and ad hominem arguments.
Build yourself a 6502 microcomputer.
It’s fairly simple and there’s complete board designs available.
The reason is that the CPU is simple enough to quickly grasp all important concepts, and it is still available.
Starting with x86 might be too frustrating at the beginning.
Also you will learn much more than just assembly code - you will learn all parts and things that make assembly possible
People should realize that programming is not a liability.
Programming per se is the actual creation of detailed knowledge by writing.
You get a task, how does it interact with all other invariants?
What are the implications on data flow, processing and user workflows?
You can rarely answer those questions beforehand, you step on them during programming as the formal language forces you to take them into account sooner or later.
If you outsource this knowledge-building you’re losing the steering ability when stuff hits the fan.
You lose the ability to navigate the code properly in order to identify bug or violations of invariants.
LLM optimize locally, that’s their nature.
Invariants are often implicitly scattered around the whole code base.
Explaining them to the LLM is much more tedious than just to write the code in the first place.
At least for me as I have much better expression-ability in Code than in natural language when it comes to describing any form of computation.
This may sound a little bit ridiculous, but if you’re really into computers:
Grab a 6502, build a computer yourself - the chips are cheap and overall availability is good.
Try writing a small operating system, an interpreter like Basic or Lisp or a game.
After you accomplished that you already know more than most CS grads and the knowledge will be so fundamental that it will help with everything else coming to you in future.
I start to think most people in Software don’t care at all.
Before LLMs they were forced to at least pretend and they had been guarded by more and more style guiding, architecture, frameworks and agile ceremony.
I care alot about software and code. I write without AI, code and prose. Yet I would say it is useful for context sensitive search and autocomplete on steroids. I wonder why it should be more? It’s the intellisense I always wanted - just not worth a trillion I'd say.
And another point: if your coworkers do their job exclusively by vibing, then where’s the point of producing software? Your competitors can recreate it easily.
There’s no value in AI generated artifacts and so there’s no value in operating the AI.
It doesn’t make any sense.
If you can build a business purely with LLMs, then it’s even easier to copy it.
Producing much output fast was never valuable, but those Valley guys seem to run around like headless chicken on crack (wait does crack even work without having a head?)
Most job postings are fake / ghost jobs.
Some are used for companies to evaluate the talent pool and find the lowest possible wages.
Others are made to collect and even sell your data.
You can identify those by their vague generic description of responsibilities/tasks and an absurd amount of requirements.
I'm not kidding - I am a freelancer and got unwanted calls from an accounting service company. Thanks to the german data regulations they had to tell me where they got my contact data from and it was a broker which got the data directly from a freelancer project platform.
There are still plenty of job opportunities out there, but lots of HR teams are overwhelmed by the amount of candidates received from the job platforms and recruiters.
Besides the global economy cooling, we also see job platforms becoming more and more useless for candidates and employers at the same time.
My suggestion is to go the conventional way of application: as a freelancer that means acquisition by cold/warm calling and as a job seeker I recommend researching companies and contacting the people there responsible for staff - team managers, internal recruiters, CTOs or even the CEO
