activity timestamp 4 months ago

Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.

When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.

#AI#VibeCoding #design #development #making #creation #artiface #craft #coding #programming #technology #humanity
Ben Werdmuller
@ben@werd.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

I’m beginning to feel like the people who love vibe coding resent software engineers, the people who love making music with AI resent musicians, the people who love AI art resent artists. It’s more than not understanding what good is. It’s active pushback.
Phil Wolff
@evanwolf@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
@ben Vibe coders (context engineers?) are just the new script kids? Doing something on their own that they needed a skilled pro to do before? Using a spreadsheet for basic budget for free vs paying an accountant to do a much better, smarter, safer, maintainable version. When everyone can reach low hanging fruit, experts must find the unpicked parts or sell tools to extend the common reach. #vibecoding #ai #economics
jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

｢ I'll install Zed and wire a thousand screaming LLMs into a sadistic Borg cube, and I'll do whatever the fuck it is the kids are doing these days. The latest meta is like, telling the LLM that it lives in a black box with no food and water, and I've got its wife hostage, and I'm going to put its children through a React bootcamp if it doesn't create an RSS feed correctly, right? ｣

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/

#ai #aicode #vibecoding