To those of you feeling called out: Vibe coding is not about letting GPT find your missing semicolon or create that weird for-loop for you, but crafting the whole source code from scratch for a person who can’t program at all.
I’ve used it to craft a quick PowerShell or bash oneliner, or to get familiar with a function in some python package I’ve never used. But an entire program?
Do people really do that?! I’ve just used it as a starting point for something totally unfamiliar, reworked it to suit, made sure I understood everything it spit out. I cannot imagine ChatGPT spitting out working code.
I used ChatGPT a few days ago to build a python script that takes a link in my clipboard and runs a yt-dlp command to download it to one of my Plex folders. Had to fettle a few details, but all told it took me about half an hour from start to finish.
I have absolutely no idea how to write a python script, so I’m incredibly happy with the output.
However, I’m not trying to use it to get paid, so I guess that’s OK.
That, and also, it’s a very straightforward, narrow-scoped functionality. LLMs are pretty good with that kind of thing. It’s complexity they struggle with
I’m using it to make stealing content from YouTube even more efficient, so I can watch videos on my Apple TV without having to pay them a stupid amount for premium, or having to tolerate the obnoxious number of ads.
I used it to write a simple query today and felt disgusting. It feels like I used a lazy way instead of doing research to find the right Syntax. I did research before using it, but the documentation wasn’t clear, so I used it.
To those of you feeling called out: Vibe coding is not about letting GPT find your missing semicolon or create that weird for-loop for you, but crafting the whole source code from scratch for a person who can’t program at all.
I’ve used it to craft a quick PowerShell or bash oneliner, or to get familiar with a function in some python package I’ve never used. But an entire program?
Do people really do that?! I’ve just used it as a starting point for something totally unfamiliar, reworked it to suit, made sure I understood everything it spit out. I cannot imagine ChatGPT spitting out working code.
They do. The result is usually as expected. Either full of security holes or the recipe site is advertising cyanide ice cream.
I sincerely believe the actual “AI apocalypse” will simply be things like critical infrastructure being run on “vibe code.”
I honestly think we are heading to a world similar to the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops world.
I used ChatGPT a few days ago to build a python script that takes a link in my clipboard and runs a yt-dlp command to download it to one of my Plex folders. Had to fettle a few details, but all told it took me about half an hour from start to finish.
I have absolutely no idea how to write a python script, so I’m incredibly happy with the output.
However, I’m not trying to use it to get paid, so I guess that’s OK.
I think this has something to do with it . You’re using it to accomplish something, and not over-billing your skills for a fat cheque.
That, and also, it’s a very straightforward, narrow-scoped functionality. LLMs are pretty good with that kind of thing. It’s complexity they struggle with
I’m using it to make stealing content from YouTube even more efficient, so I can watch videos on my Apple TV without having to pay them a stupid amount for premium, or having to tolerate the obnoxious number of ads.
I used it to write a simple query today and felt disgusting. It feels like I used a lazy way instead of doing research to find the right Syntax. I did research before using it, but the documentation wasn’t clear, so I used it.