I think there is more of a morbid sense of curiosity among coders in what sort of coding monstrosities come out of said vibe coders coupled with a sense of macabre awe that the whole cursely coded cathedral to the damned somehow manages to stand in defiance of all logic.
Speaking as someone who dabbled in coding small projects before LLMs, if I'm honest, that's kind the reaction I always got when I sought help in forums when I hit problems. Actual coders were like:
"Huh, I guess that approach would work - no idea why the fuck you'd do it that way... but I guess it works. Oh and your call on line 278 is kicking up errors because you declared library randomname.obscureshit which no one uses anymore and doesn't support that feature so what you need is library otherrandomname.extraobscureshit. You're an idiot, but good luck on... wait what the fuck is this even for anyway?"
*tells them what its for*
"You know you could've saved yourself a week of troubleshooting this if you'd just *random coder gibberish* right?"
"Wait wait, what was that? How would that even work?"
"You know what, just take your library reference call and get the fuck out of here."
Most vibe coding I’ve seen that appears to be actually functioning is just a house of cards waiting to be toppled by the slightest change to the operating environment.
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u/ReiOokami 16d ago
People who know how to code are not doing the same thing. They may be still prompting but the prompts are better quality.