| ▲ | perlgeek 4 hours ago | |
Note that "hand-crafted" furniture is usually still built using power tools: electric planers, electric saws, routers etc. The real difference is that a carpenter actually talks to you when you order your furniture, and builds something custom to your specification. The quality of the finished cupboard wouldn't improve if your craftsman only used hand tools. I suspect something similar will happen for software: For some applications, vibe code is good enough. For others, a human will do software design (possibly with machine assistance), hand-writes some parts, delegates other parts to an AI but still reads it. Purely-human-written code will be akin to furniture built using only hand tools: a piece of art, or maybe product of a hobby or a religious ceremony rather than a practical necessity or a practical advantage. | ||