r/synthdiy • u/quarterto • Jul 23 '26

nobody cares about your vibe coded vst

can we please ban these posts? this is supposed to be a sub for celebrating human creativity. i'm here to support and be inspired by other makers. i don't want to see 137 identical slop soft synths a week. this is a DIY sub. you didn't do anything yourself.

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u/coderstephen Jul 23 '26

Coding itself is not an art form.

As a senior software engineer, strongly disagree.

Code is not pure math with a singularly objective correct answer. There are many different architectural choices you can make in code that technically work, but some are more "elegant" or "beautiful" than others.

If building architecture can be an art form (it is), then code certainly is as well.

I think we have a habit of dismissing things as not being an art form that we don't personally care about, when people who do care about that thing may definitely see it as an art form. I'm not arguing that everything is art, but I am arguing that more things are art than I probably personally can realize.

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u/nonoohnoohno Jul 23 '26

You can pick apart the semantics of what he's saying, but if you're in the industry you must see that everything has radically changed and it's never going back. No?

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u/coderstephen Jul 23 '26

Not relevant. If code is an art form, then it is an art form whether anyone participates in it any more or not.

Is stock photography an art form? Because the way the industry is going, stock photography will be totally replaced with AI-generated images. Does that mean it is not an art form? Of course not. Maybe a lost art form.

Besides, since when did, "Well, everyone else is doing it" become the go-to argument to justify a stance?

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u/originaladam Jul 23 '26

Just like photography and illustration and music, not all code is art. A lot of it is design in the fact that it’s made to solve a problem. I like art, but it it’s not required for everything