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AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds (futurism.com)
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"No Duh," say senior developers everywhere.

The article explains that vibe code often is close, but not quite, functional, requiring developers to go in and find where the problems are - resulting in a net slowdown of development rather than productivity gains.

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I have been vibe coding a whole game in JavaScript to try it out. So far I have gotten a pretty ok game out of it. It's just a simple match three bubble pop type of thing so nothing crazy but I made a design and I am trying to implement it using mostly vibe coding.

That being said the code is awful. So many bad choices and spaghetti code. It also took longer than if I had written it myself.

So now I have a game that's kind of hard to modify haha. I may try to setup some unit tests and have it refactor using those.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like vibecoders will have to relearn the lessons of the past 40 years of software engineering.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

As with every profession every generation... only this time on their own because every company forgot what employee training is and expects everyone to be born with 5 years of experience.

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, are you blaming AI for this, or yourself?

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Blaming? I mean it wrote pretty much all of the code. I definitely wouldn't tell people I wrote it that way haha.