Comment by zzzeek

Comment by zzzeek 2 months ago

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> As vibe coding becomes normalized

Just want you to know this heart monitor we gave you was engineered with vibe coding, that's why your insurance was able to cover it. Nobody really knows how the software works (because...vibes), but the AI of course surpasses humans on all current (human-created) benchmarks like SAT and bar exam tests, so there's no reason to think its software isn't superior to human-coded (crusty old non "vibe coded" software) as well. You should be able to resume activity immediately! good luck

lioeters 2 months ago

Welcome to the flight, this is your captain speaking. Just want to let you know our entire flight system was vibe coded to the strict standards you expect from our industry, iterated and refined in a virtual environment over twenty virtual-years, with no fallible human eyes reviewing it - even if it were possible to review the mountain of impenetrable machine-generated code. The pilot will be controlling the plane via a cutting-edge LLM interface, prompt-engineering our way to our overseas destination. Relax, get comfortable, and pray to the collective intelligence distilled from Reddit posts.

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brookst 2 months ago

What percent of applications require that level of reliability?

Vibe coding will be normalized because the vast, vast majority of code is not life or death. That literally what “normal” means.

Exceptional cases like pacemakers and spaceflight will continue to be produced with rigor. Maybe even 1% of produced code will work that way!

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  • codr7 2 months ago

    Do we really want to go further down this path?

    Things that used to work just fine are already breaking badly because of AI.

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  • poulpy123 2 months ago

    Not so many, but all programs need to be designed and developed with reason, not statistics

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  • zzzeek 2 months ago

    this is black and white thinking. if the practice of "let the AI write the code and assume it's fine because I'm only an incurious amateur anyway" becomes normalized, the tendency of AI to produce inaccurate slop will become more and more part of software we use every day and definitely will begin impacting functions that are more and more critical over time.

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    • brookst 2 months ago

      Different tools for different jobs is not black and white thinking.

      I remember when people said the same thing about Basic; how dare anyone create such an abomination, whole generations of programmers will be useless because they learned this oversimplified, terrible language instead of proper assembly.

      We were fine.

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