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｢ Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
A paper by Yvonne Chen of ShanghaiTech University and colleagues refers to “genAI’s mediocrity trap”. With the help of the tech, people can produce something “good enough”. This helps weaker workers. But the paper finds it can harm the productivity of better ones, who decide to work less hard ｣
My employer lost the capitalism game and they're trying to get a second wind through a broken vibe-coded SaaS platform.
https://cendyne.dev/posts/2025-11-26-a-vibe-coded-saas-killed-my-team.html
Elixir is already one of the least employable languages out there, these clowns can't afford to tell anyone to "adapt or die" when it comes to GenAI.
The courage of pushovers isn't exactly a good vibe neither.
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A number of the people who attended demoed what they made — including my wife's friend.
It was interesting to see how vibe coding was enabling people without programming skills to create applications.
Are their applications as good as applications created by career software-engineers‽ — no, but that is probably OK. Their vibe coded applications seem to be good enough for their needs.
What is interesting, though, is —
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What is interesting, though, is —
This (non-programmers using vibe coding to create applications) reminds me of something I noticed decades ago about spreadsheets —
People who are bright who don't know how to computer-program use spreadsheets to create applications
Are their spreadsheet-based applications as good as applications created by career software-engineers‽ — no, but they are good enough for their needs. And, that's fantastic!
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One of my wife's friends started up a "vibe coding" meetup.
My wife encouraged me to attend — although I suspect my wife encouraged me to attend so she could hang out with her friend afterwards 🙂
I have been programming for over 30 years — I don't think vibe coding has much benefit for me.
But —
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A number of the people who attended demoed what they made — including my wife's friend.
It was interesting to see how vibe coding was enabling people without programming skills to create applications.
Are their applications as good as applications created by career software-engineers‽ — no, but that is probably OK. Their vibe coded applications seem to be good enough for their needs.
What is interesting, though, is —
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One of my wife's friends started up a "vibe coding" meetup.
My wife encouraged me to attend — although I suspect my wife encouraged me to attend so she could hang out with her friend afterwards 🙂
I have been programming for over 30 years — I don't think vibe coding has much benefit for me.
But —
｢ Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
A paper by Yvonne Chen of ShanghaiTech University and colleagues refers to “genAI’s mediocrity trap”. With the help of the tech, people can produce something “good enough”. This helps weaker workers. But the paper finds it can harm the productivity of better ones, who decide to work less hard ｣
My employer lost the capitalism game and they're trying to get a second wind through a broken vibe-coded SaaS platform.
https://cendyne.dev/posts/2025-11-26-a-vibe-coded-saas-killed-my-team.html
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Why is CSS so tough for AI? · The reason Tailwind CSS is more AI-friendly https://ilo.im/168axz
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#Programming #Coding #VibeCoding #AI #Context #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #CSS #TailwindCSS
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Discover why "Vibe Coding" is now one of the Words of the Year.
"Look at what they did to my boy"
#Vibecoding gems
Lol, this #vibecoding advice is solid
Vibe Code Warning – from 1k to 10k lines, a personal casestudy https://lobste.rs/s/vbv9il #vibecoding
https://github.com/jackdoe/pico2-swd-riscv?tab=readme-ov-file#0-vibe-code-warning
“And worse of all, my mental model of the code is completely gone, and with it my ownership.”
#AI #VibeCoding https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115525426513290261
Vibe Code Warning – from 1k to 10k lines, a personal casestudy https://lobste.rs/s/vbv9il #vibecoding
https://github.com/jackdoe/pico2-swd-riscv?tab=readme-ov-file#0-vibe-code-warning
｢ 'Vibe coding’ beats ‘clanker’ to be Collins dictionary’s word of the year. AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list ｣
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