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Vibe coding could be as transformative as steam power, and it's unleashing a gold rush where the space of prospecting is ideas.

Let's talk about idea men. An "idea man" is a pejorative, implying someone who only has ideas, they never get off the ground, they're stuck dreaming, and even living in those dreams without caring enough to bring them to fruition. Imagine you're someone in the 1800s who dreams of running a large textile factory but there just isn't the power nearby to run the mill. No powerful rivers, no steady winds. Steam power comes in to the picture and turns a power problem into a much smaller more manageable people problem.

Vibe coding lowers the cost of coding which is a lot like increasing humanity's coding power. Now idea men who couldn't see coding their own prototype from scratch or hiring a bunch of devs and pitching the venture capital can literally type their idea into a tool like Shakespeare. They can go through revisions in hours rather than weeks and months. They now have the power to address market needs in a day..

Often I've felt like an idea man. I keep a lot of them around and always come up with new ones, but I've had too many interests to give each idea the time it needed in the pre-vibe-coding era. A few days with Shakespeare is like installing a big new steam power plant. Now each idea isn't a burden, it's an opportunity. Which leads me to ask the community....

What do you want to see? If idea people are now empowered, bring out your best armchair coding ideas and let's talk about them. Doesn't take more than a motion and a second to try an idea out. Everyone has used better and worse apps. What is something in an app, any app that you use now that could take a better form that you saw before?

I'm posting this on Nostr and Nostr only but if this is such a transformative force then we should think bigger. There are billions out there dying to use what we come up with here, and by instilling out values of decentralization, freedom, and self-sovereignty we can do more with our apps than 1,000 protests and campaigns. What do you say? #vibestr

BITKARROT 5mo ago 💬 1

I actually wish for more people to pay attention to the fundamentals, but I fear we are entering an era where cutting corners and chasing the sun is needed to survive.

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Jeroen Ubbink 5mo ago 💬 2

Well about a year ago vibe coding was not even a thing so let's give it a few years.

I can't deny that assistive llm's have made code production a lot faster, if not yet accessible for everyone.

The biggest concern that i have are the fundamentals of the llm's being really complex and totally not accessible to 99,999% of the population. Here is where innovation and improvement is needed the most. If you want big improvements you need people that can tinker in their basement with simple parts.

BITKARROT 5mo ago 💬 1

the best thing about LLMs is that now I don't have to answer nontechnical pleb q's. its great. just point them at the LLM as a self learning tool and they are willing to pay for it instead of just mooching precious time off of devs

Jeroen Ubbink 5mo ago

Oh yeah i recommend a lot of people to try it as well but i find it really annoying that this tech cannot really be created by anyone. So we rely on the owners of the services. They giveth and they taketh away. They will also start asking for your age because they can easily be strongarmed by the almighty EU.

My point being that i am waiting for the moment that this does not have to be a service by big companies only.

STERRY 5mo ago

China with deepseek seems to be pursuing an open source strategy. I know the devil's in the details but self-hosting seems to be possible near the state of the art. There may be a kind of global detente in that sense.

Since this post I'm thinking that the scarcity now is in smart and honest people leveraging these tools.