Vibe coding boom will get many end users in trouble.
While it is a huge leap forward that allows enthusiasts to bring their ideas to life, majority of the new apps will be built in a reckless way by clueless people.
At the same time building something that does not interact with user data while improving your project is a win-win.
For example, I finally managed to automate my 3 year old project nostr:npub1tcalvjvswjh5rwhr3gywmfjzghthexjpddzvlxre9wxfqz4euqys0309hn and it now automatically posts historical Bitcoin events to Nostr. I know the code is bloated and ugly, I don’t know (yet) how to fix this, but automation works and that’s good enough for now.
PRs welcome 💜 https://github.com/Bitcoin-Calendar/calendar-bot
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We're getting to a point where anyone can make anything, if they smooth talk ai.
Alot of the things I've built are built with the help of ai. Free ones everyone knows at that....
Why would I spend hours on themes, colors, layouts, etc if I don't have to? Lol
100%
The catch is: you know what you’re doing.
Kinda. I'm just learning JS dude. Lol.
Ai has been a great help.... break everything into chunks. Learn what does what and why...
Ask for this or that to happen, learn, debug, repeat.
Anyone can build anything now, or I wouldn't be able to build on nostr with my 8th grade education and heavy drug use that's thankfully behind me now. 💜🫂
Honestly not even close to this for anything beyond simple projects. At this point it will empower non engineers to write horrible code that works for happy path coding. A non engineer doesn't even know what to prompt for.
Meanwhile experienced engineers can use it to make rapid progress on larger projects.
But it's a very long way from say prompting the next Unreal engine or a game like Halo. Or even a complex web platform which I use it for daily. Very helpful. No way can it reason across the entire stack in a cohesive way reliably., but brainstorming architecture patterns is amazing. And always gets you dirrctionally right if you know what you are prompting for.
Knowing what your prompting for and how it works makes a big difference.
Vibe coders will be forced to actually learn things if they want what they build to actually WORK how they envision it working.
Ai can do alot, but not everything.
Agreed. Use it to become a better coder and it will become more useful in your hands.
Exactly. I’m pretty sure we’re not talking about building Unreal Engine here, but rather about simple code snippets and mini apps that improve your productivity or automate some of your project’s processes.
Prompt is the difference between a working and a broken script or app. When I started coding Bitcoin Calendar i simply talked to AI like if it was a developer. The result was a disaster. Now I spend hours on understanding and formulating what I need, studying documentation to my best ability, using AI to compress my thoughts and findings into a specification, and only then I press “go”.
Yet even now, as I have a working product, the time spent reading and understanding how AI approached the task and what came out of it, made me realize numerous pieces that I should have approached differently. I am in fact planning to redo the backend of the existing project. I find this to be the best way to learn.
