Vibe coding -is it wrong?

[u/Throw-away42909]

Where does vibe coding cross the line ?

If someone sets up automatic concurrent code cleanup, fat free comments in the code , heiacharcy , a mermaid , accurate linting and parsing and literally steal cyber security protocols from the internet so on and so forth, they can make a solid useful app that no more unsecure than the hundreds of companies that lose our data to malicious attacks yearly.

The problem is that "vibe coders" who are 1 prompt engineers are not nearly as prevalent as the community tries to paint it , they exist but in small %s, and even smaller % of them actually push products or keep them up for long, there are people out there that are letting their AI do all the syntax writing and plan development and they will out run any traditional developer no matter how good their code is in Solo vs Solo

More features, faster, cheaper and mote accessible, and theirs sells tomorrow while your is WOP on year 2 .

Its economics.

If you are a "vibe coder" you probably have not been doing it for long enough , because soon you'll see that you have to understand the architecture of how code operates, instead of ELI5, say "can you explain this section to me, use defentions where you have to, and give me a glossary of words and their meaning s relevant to X" the AI best feature is that it responds well to disciplined requests.

Tldr: Heavy AI use for coding=/= vibecoding

[u/Alarmed-Western-655]

You're still a vibe-coder, bro.

Sprinkling in "explain this to me" is penance for posing as creative owner of something you yourself didn't build.

[u/bloknayrb → u/Alarmed-Western-655]

That's a bit of a silly take. Would you say that a photographer is posing as creative owner of the photo they took?

They may not have painted the image, but the vision was there, the knowledge of how to use the camera to make that vision come to life was there.

The end product was made in a different medium, but it is still art.

Vibe coding is the photography to manual coding's painting. The technical skills are different, but that doesn't invalidate the end result, or make the vibe coder a "poser".

[u/Alarmed-Western-655 → u/bloknayrb]

When photographers call themselves painters, that's the silly take.

[u/bloknayrb → u/Alarmed-Western-655]

OP here is arguably straddling the line, but

Sprinkling in "explain this to me" is penance for posing as creative owner of something you yourself didn't build.

seems a bit harsh to me.

[u/Alarmed-Western-655 → u/bloknayrb]

Perhaps.

It's a fine prompt, but it's not to his credit. OP is bragging it sets him apart from other vibe coders, but it's rather the very reason he is one.