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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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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!
@reiver I think I'm going to see you at a meetup later today, and I have a version of this story to tell 🙂
