There're two main reasons to code: fun and to make
something useful.  Being an amateur coder, I tend
more to the fun kind.  Not long ago I was allowed
to make my own little scripts to run in the office.
Not any longer for vague security reasons and such.
These days what I code is mostly to help me with
my hobbies and just good old fun.
Enter "vibe" coding.
I don't know; it's a tool, I guess, and that can
boost productivity and sanitize some common pitfalls,
bugs and security risks. However, there are enough
lazy humans naive enough to accept whatever comes
out of the AI, no matter how bloated or hard to
mantain, as long as "it runs on my machine".
Yet, what I dread more is that we'll end up
with coders who don't understand their machines
at all, or even the problem they're supposed to
be solving. Just as kids who take a peek at
their tests.
That's my biggest fears with AI, and it's a
scary one.

2025-04-29 06:58:18
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