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Isn’t it obvious?
I vibe coded once and after I saw the generated code, I will not let anything like that on my home network.
For the record, not all agentic coding is "vibe coding". It is possible to do real engineering with an LLM.
In the same way the advent of the compiler helped us go from high-level human-readable formal language to low-level machine-readable formal language, an LLM helps us go from high-level natural language to high-level human-readable formal language. The distinction between vibing and engineering is how much intention you have about what the tool spits out the other side.
Vibing says "all I have is an input, I don't know what the output should be, so I'm not even going to look at it". Engineering says "I have an intended output in my head, and I'm using whatever tool will reliably create my intention the fastest".
I am convinced most of the people who hate LLM Assisted coding are all the dicks from Stack Overflow who are pissy that everyone found a better resource to ask questions against.
Unfortunately it is the nature of the anti-coding-LLM debate that people who never wrote a line of assembly language, and never in their lives wrote a line of code that wouldn't be run in a managed runtime of some kind, now think they're the Masters of the Coding Universe and are qualified to dictate what are the Right Tools and the Wrong Tools to be a Real Programmer(tm).
Fortunately, as you rightly point out we've seen this dance a hundred times before. This too shall pass.
A compiler is deterministic. LLMs are by definition nondeterministic.
Trying to understand where you might be going with this. Is the implication that non-deterministic/stochastic algorithms have no practical use in engineering?
No, they have a place where stochastic algorithms are necessary. For writing a hello world application, no stochastic algorithm is necessary. Comparing compilers with LLMs is comparing apples with oranges.