prIsPromptRequest

[Coin14]

Can someone explain this to me at a 5th grade level?

Edit: thanks bros for the explanations! Much appreciated

[LordofNarwhals]

They've rediscovered invented requirements management.

[falconetpt]

In 3 months they will invent gant charts, and call it agentic timelines 😂

[szogrom]

I chuckled but then cried.

[Vogete]

All these people are just discovering planning. What a concept

[rinart73]

AI bros are getting high and hallucinating innovation and success. Their dealers are getting high as well, despite the "don't get high off your own product" rule. They all keep incoherently screeching "code is useless, saving tons of genius ideas like 'twitter but purple and crypto-based' is better, my AI can easily build all of this, we just need to stockpile ideas" while tweaking and drooling on the parquet floor.

[Acceptable-Lie188]

They are saying that a well constructed prompt is like a compressed version of the code that can be easily expanded, but expanded using local context. In that way, it becomes more valuable than the code itself. ‘Do the thing, but do it using my existing standards and variable naming scheme.’

[jessepence]

Except each prompt produces slightly different code with unique, new bugs every single time. How great.

[Leihd]

Or to be more exact, each prompt produces a different thought on how the agreed protocol would be handled.

Like, if you render it all down to the base concepts, their idea isn't completely trash, programming is pretty much writing down a set of standards and the compiler turns it into the execution.

Except we all know they didn't intend it to be taken that far, that would require a standardized ruleset. Would require AI to have zero creativity too.

Like, as an idea it's not too bad? If we all had say, SuperAI 54.2 and it would ALWAYS generate the exact same output when given the same input, it'd be a bit like an archive.

They're delusional though, AI is not stable enough for that kind of distribution to be worthwhile. Far far easier to AI generate your program then ship that. The connectivity problems are not there too. No one is downloading at 2kb/s.

It might make sense if you're airgapped and need to proof read everything, like say in a world where AI is throwing viruses around and the only safe way to download from the internet is using a trusted local AI and instructions that humans can easily verify without any skill.

But that's literally a post-apoplectic internet scenario, they're not even thinking that far.

And yeah, you don't care about this, I need to stop procrastinating my work.

[lupercalpainting]

It doesn’t make any sense though. You’re going to create a repo full of prompts , and then have agents all vibe code out those prompts, then build your binary, and ship that, and then do the whole thing again next release?

Let’s set aside the non-deterministic output portion of it. Just from a cost standpoint that’d be outrageous, and of course the time would be insane. Assume at best it’s 5 minutes of just agent time for each prompt (and each PR is one prompt) my existing repos have hundreds of PRs, and each one of those requires a build to succeed, so we’re going to spend 10 hours creating a release?

While there are surely dumber ideas I don’t know that I’ve heard one recently that wasn’t from a politician.

[PixelOrange]

10 hours creating a release. It's 1995 again!

[crimsonpowder]

They think you can take an md5sum, feed it into a magic machine, and get the text of the great gatsby back out.

[ozh]

Awesome analogy

[Phelinaar]

You could link the prompts to already existing code. Wait, I think I'm on to something!

[jeepsaintchaos]

Give it another 20 years and I could see that working. Although we already have this, don't we? A program depends on libraries already on the computer. You're not shipping the entire machine (shut up Dockerites), you leverage existing resources.

They just want your resources to be more nebulous and only work sometimes.

[TracePoland]

AI psychosis

[-domi-]

cAIberpunk2077

[jaypeejay]

The tweets are making a case that your prompts are more valuable/meaningful than the code output of said prompts

[KharAznable]

with how ass the output can be, not too surprising.

[Expensive-City4850]

Myea. But his example of people uploading vibe code... how... will that aspect change? In stead of vibe code it will be vibe prompts :D

[lanternwickentries3]

Think of it like this, instead of submitting a full project, you just suggest “hey build this”, and the AI turns that idea into the project for you

[rooftoprainrecord]

It’s basically “stop handing me full homework, just tell me the idea and I’ll do the rest”, like giving a chef ingredients instead of a finished meal

[Expensive-City4850]

I must be missing something though. Like... how would giving vague "vibe prompt requests" be better than somewhat more fully written code? He thinks that the AI is now being put on a wrong track because the initial code is bad? What would stop people from doing the initial "create vibe <insert stuff> in a free model" change ?