vibe coding is just spicier "Ctrl+C Ctrl+V"
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But oh boy is it a flashy good-looking structured cool code! It doesn’t work, but it’s cool!
Purely out of curiosity, I used the Cursor IDE for a personal project involving a lot of math-y stuff, and this really wasn't my experience.
Not only was most of what it produced wrong (ran just fine, but mostly produced complete garbage), the code quality was absolute shit. Overly long functions, often with parts that repeated, kept shoving more and more parameters into those overly long functions, no sense of using abstractions to cut down on code length etc. etc.
Might have partially been a question of language choice; I was using Julia, and there's definitely not going to be as much training data for it compared to something like Python (🤮), and a lot of the code that is out there has been written by people who aren't coders but scientists
Sure, results probably vary greatly by language and chosen AI.
If you just accept it's basically mostly useless, it can be helpful. It often showed me new ways or ideas that didn't work at all, but gave me the right kick in the right direction.But I'm no pro, I just code for fun since forever. There might be AIs that could probably do better jobs, as I'm also no AI-"pro".
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When I imagine someone vibe coding, I picture the scene in Grandma's Boy where JP is working on his game, and getting super frustrated because the character's head just keeps falling off.
This is the perfect way to desceibe this, thank you!
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It also obscures any licensing issues one might have.
Most of the time people do not read AI generated code and its way harder to debug than normally ctrlC + ctrlV code
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What the heck is vibe coding
It's similar to stealing code directly from Github, Stackoverflow, or some similar site, except you beg the chatbot to fix the bad code it spat out.
