| ▲ | krisgenre 14 hours ago |
| Okay, but is that a bad thing? |
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| ▲ | sgammon 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If the author doesn't understand their own code, I probably won't |
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| ▲ | another_twist 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Vibe coding doesnt mean the author doesnt understand their code. Its likely that they don't want carpal tunnel from typing out trivial code and hence offload that labor to a machine. | | |
| ▲ | quietbritishjim 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | JNI for io_uring is not trivial code. | |
| ▲ | sgammon 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | "Vibe-coding" means the author deliberately does not understand their code. "AI-assisted engineering" is what you are thinking of. |
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| ▲ | noitpmeder 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| For your pet project? No. For something you're building for others to use? Almost certainly yes. |
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| ▲ | falcojr 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | You do realize that it's possible to ask AI to write code and then read the code yourself to ensure it's valid, right? I usually try to strip the pointless comments, but it's not the end of the world if people leave them in. | | |
| ▲ | simlevesque 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah but you're leaving out a crucial part: the code is full of useless comments. That leaves 2 options: - they didn't read the code themselves to ensure it's valid - they did read the code themselves but left the useless comments No matter which happened it shows they're a bad developer and I don't want to run their code. | |
| ▲ | Mechanical9 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | IMO reading code is usually harder than writing code. | |
| ▲ | rustman123 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The comments aren’t the problem. | |
| ▲ | sgammon 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > I usually try to strip the pointless comments You could add your own instead, explaining how things work? > It's possible to ask AI to write code and then read the code yourself Sure, but then it would not be vibecoding. | | |
| ▲ | cbsmith 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | >> It's possible to ask AI to write code and then read the code yourself > Sure, but then it would not be vibecoding. Wait, what? | | |
| ▲ | sgammon 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | AI assisted coding/engineering becomes "vibe coding" when you decide to abdicate any understanding of what you are building, instead focusing only on the outcome | |
| ▲ | the_af 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Vibe-coding as originally defined (by Karpathy?) implied not reading the code at all, just trying it and pasting back any error codes; repeat ad infinitum until it works or you give up. Now the term has evolved into "using AI in coding" (usually with a hint of non rigor/casualness), but that's not what it originally meant. |
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| ▲ | UltraSane 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Is it bad if the world runs on a quadrillion lines of AI-generated code that no one really understands? |
