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   Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 00:15:53 JST Baldur Bjarnason

   Laughing at "AI" boosters worrying "vibe coding" is becoming synonymous with "AI coding". Tech is vibes througout. Vibe management. Vibe strategy. Vibe design. Coding has been a garbage fire for decades and, yeah it's a vibe-based pop culture from top to bottom and has only been getting worse

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     dotsie (dotsie@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 00:15:51 JST dotsie

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     @baldur yeah I have never worked in an environment like you describe and the development teams I’ve managed have always gotten more rigorous over time, not less.

     I think that’s the exception though. Web dev specifically has always been a shit show IME.

     These Gen AI tools should never have been rolled out to the public, managers and executives who aren’t technical (and some who are) do not understand the enormous caveats the tooling has.

     100% agree big tech doesn’t care due to “growth”

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     dotsie (dotsie@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 00:15:51 JST dotsie

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     @baldur I had an interaction with a “senior dev” and they tried to sell me on a “time series” reinforcement AI solution that would have dozens of users max and their focus was to create a vector DB.

     Someone else rightly asked about fine tuning and they blew them off.

     We can’t even get these people to understand how to use the flawed technology as it exists today!

     I felt insane, this person even had an entire WebGL portfolio full of visual bullshit with plots and heat maps that meant nothing,

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     Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 00:15:52 JST Baldur Bjarnason

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     "Vibe coding is all AI coding" feels true to most. Not caring what happens after code is pushed to the final victim is already the norm. The only change from adopting "AI" is they now have the freedom to no longer care about what happens BEFORE as well.

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     Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 00:15:52 JST Baldur Bjarnason

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     “Not everybody in software dev is like that! Some coders genuinely care and put in the work needed to make good software”

     True, but I feel confident in saying that next to none of those are leaning hard into “AI coding”

     The target market for “AI” is SPECIFICALLY people who don’t care

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     Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 00:15:53 JST Baldur Bjarnason

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     Code that does the job the end user wants it to do is already the exception and software is a product managed based on vibes throughout. Anybody who goes all huffy because the field OVERWHELMINGLY responds to "vibe coding is using AI to create code that you don't care about" with "ah, so all coding, gotcha!" has not been paying attention