I've been a software developer for 25 years, and 30ish years in the industry, and have been programming my whole life. I worked at Google for 10 of those years. I work in C++ and Rust. I know how to write code.

I don't pay $100 to "vibe code" and "learn to program" or "avoid learning to program."

I pay $100 so I can get my personal (open source) projects done faster and more completely without having to hire people with money I don't have.

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satvikpendem 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm talking about the general trend, not the exceptions. How much of the code do you manually write with the 100 dollar subscription? Vibe coding is a descriptive, not a prescriptive, label.

	▲	cmrdporcupine 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		"How much of the code do you manually write" I review all of it, but hand write little of it. It's bizarre how I've ended up here, but yep. That said, I wouldn't / don't trust it with something from scratch, I only trust it to do that because I built -- by hand -- a decent foundation for it to start from.

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beepbooptheory 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would you ever hire someone to help with a personal open source project?

	▲	cmrdporcupine an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I wouldn't, but I can pay Claude