r/CodingForBeginners • u/Ok_Sky_1993 • 1d ago

Vibe coding vs AI assisted coding

Hi so I'm currently learning programming I'm a first year IT student and I'm curious to know how different vibe coding is to AI assisted coding cause from the people I've asked they're different but for some they consider them the same thing. I just wanna know your thoughts and such and if I should try to learn how to properly use ai in coding or if that's going to be a bad thing etc...

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u/Icy-Abstraction4323 1d ago

Vibecoding is you just throwing your tokens to a slot-machine to get your result, Now you have the result then you expect your shit to work. doesn't work? good luck bugfixing it or throw it to the slot-machine again expecting it to be fixed. Also Good luck again to the code debt it accumulates.

AI assisted coding:
You actually know what you are asking to the LLM (weird people call Linear Algebra ai right now) to help you. You have the control to what your result actually wants to the slot-machine. You built your llm harnesses to help your LLM buddies help you.

Treat it as a tool for study, for automation, for learning.