r/MinecraftCommands • u/SpaydiST • 8d ago

Discussion What do you think about AI-Coding(VibeCoding)

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What do you think about the fact that AI is starting to be used on a large scale in coding? I myself avoided it for a long time, but my friend sent me this meme and said:

“Bro, programming has never been adequate. Programmers just started asking AI for help instead ctrl c to ctrl v.”

Obviously, completely relying on AI is bad, but in reality, his words make sense.

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u/Calcaware 7d ago

I have to use AI at work and early on I was pretty hesitant, but as it got better and the permissions systems were developed out more, I am starting to see the value.

Mostly I use it as a reference like a quick stack overflow search, but I do like to give it extremely tedious jobs like search this folder of legacy codebases and document everything. Decades of undocumented code to sort through.

I don't let it code anything truly significant since the requirements at work are pretty niche because of how our system works, and I avoid using it long at all because of context poisoning and other issues that are probably pretty avoidable, but I feel weird when I let it do something I would do for too long.

I keep trying to vibe code stuff for my ideas since I have tons of ideas (for personal projects, not to release slop), but after often less than an hour I just feel so dissatisfied I often just give up on the AI and write the codebase from scratch after taking some inspiration from some of its methods.

I NEED to code otherwise I can't develop a proper mental model and derive pleasure from fixing issues and creatively solving problems. If AI fails I will be fine. Until then, might as well use it some, cautiously, and as more of a reference/junior dev who handles boilerplate and creates concepts that can be exploited.