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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

A lot of the arguments people use against vibe coding sounds a lot like "You shouldn't use a high-level programming language unless you understand the assembly it compiles to."

[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Except for the bit where LLM behaviors aren’t deterministic, but those of most compilers in most situations are.

And before anyone says that LLVM in version X produced wildly different assembly from version Y, it is not remotely comparable to what LLMs do, not even close.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, but if you ask me to solve the same problem at different times I probably wouldn't write the same code either.

[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 0 points 55 minutes ago

We aren’t comparing humans to code.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yes. It's the same thing, except when I joined the market knowing fuck all about computers, while coding with my cute little BASIC commands; there wasn't some tech bro asshole telling all the C programmers that their skills would no longer be required. Or at least he (implicated in Epstein files billionaire, Bill Gates) wasn't saying it quite so loudly (as accused rapist billionaire Sam Altman).

Incidentally, I still work with that same C programmer, I'm still learning from them, but have since taught them a trick or two; and we both now charge sinful amounts of money for our time.