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They're trying to normalize calling vibe coding a "programming paradigm," don't let them.
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this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
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I don't know what vibe coding is, but I'm assuming it's when you relax in your chair, lean back, place your hands on the keyboard and just type. Let the vibes guide your code.
Vibe coding is when you're not coding, just typing prompts into AI in hopes it will produce a legible code.
i tried that one time. it was the only time i tried to use AI for something actually useful that i needed. i wanted to write some simple JavaScript that would rapidly flash 3 equally sized images on the screen of a handheld linux machine. the AI provided a list of instructions of software and other prerequisites i would need. after installing everything and entering in the code provided into the software, it immediately started yelling warning signs at me about the code. nothing ran. it was all useless. it felt like talking to a paranoid schizophrenic. the ai was so sure of the code, and insisted that i must be making a mistake, and kept apologizing and providing more useless code. it was literally just like talking to a paranoid schizophrenic at a bus stop, insisting all the crazy shit they're saying REALLY makes sense, if only you'll let them explain it to you further.
what trash.
I had a fun one this week! I needed to make an SQL query that would aggregate rows by invoice and date, but only aggregate 5 then overflow to a new row. I also needed to access the individual row data because the invoice items weren't summed, they were displayed on separate columns!
I ask my senior if there's an easy way to do this, he comes back with "chatgpt says you can assign row numbers then get individual row data with % row number"
I go to Gemini and ask "how to aggregate rows by 5 and get individual row data out?" It says "you can't" (since when has Ai's been able to say you can't do X) So I ask it about the modulo operator and it gives me an example that doesn't really work. After screwing around for a while I give up and decide I'll just run this query 3 times. 1 for rows 1-5 then for 6-10 and one more for 11-15 that's so many rows surely no one will break this.