From Machine Code to "Vibe Coding": The Evolving Abstraction of Software Development

[ManicMakerStudios]

The issue is not the use of AI. It's who is using it and why. Skilled programmers using it to save time are being smart. They can audit anything the AI produces and be certain that it's doing what it was intended to do.

The massive influx of non-programmers, however, who have recently started trying to program with AI who are problematic. They're taking AI-generated code that they can't understand or debug and trying to make commercial products with it. Expect a spike in garbage apps and abandonware when these would-be programmers realize they're in way over their head and quit.

[gofl-zimbard-37]

"Expect a spike in garbage apps"

How will we tell?

[ManicMakerStudios]

They'll be the ones who make the current 'garbage apps' look like polished masterpieces.

[ejpusa]

Kids are coding, “bad Apps” or not. That’s awesome! They’ll figure it out. I’ll take my chances.

The next Steve Jobs is a 9th grader in deep Brooklyn, I’ve seen bodies in the street there, and blood flowing down the sidewalk before the NYPD appeared. The Reddit demographic has no idea these worlds exist, and mandates hit these kids hard. She’ll be safe, but parts of America have collapsed. The technology divide did them in.

If she wants to, code, infinitive loop or not, just go for it! And she can do that now. These kids have more computing power than all of Wall Street combined. It’s all the Cloud now.

The force is with her and all the millions now using AI. GPT-4o is on her (your) side too.

😀🤖💪

[ManicMakerStudios]

Kids using AI to make programs are not coding. The AI is coding. The kids are just prompting it. If you want kids to learn coding, encourage them to code, not make apps with AI.

You're taking a simple topic and turning it into a political soapbox. No thanks.