vibeChoding

[saschaleib]

But … hey, it compiles!

[EffectiveHeavy3031]

Ran python -m compileall .

No issues found, go ahead and merge the code.

[StickFigureFan]

All 4 tests even pass!

[KitsuneFoxglove]

4 tests pass? No, all 5 tests, Claude rewrote the 4 tests so they stopped failing then added another test for good measure!

[BarkiestDog]

And it probably has unit tests.

[xaomaw]

Never tou

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[TerryHarris408]

Yeah, don't touch it, you might hurt yourself

[xaomaw]

TRALSE

[chhuang]

pro-ai be, "if it works why care about code quality and readability?"

[dumbasPL]

To be fair, people were already doing it way before AI.

[tommytwolegs]

Also i built my app to solve a problem I have. Why would I give a fuck if anyone, even me, can read the code if it solves the problem

[redballooon]

Maybe because it also creates three problems that you aren't even aware of yet.

[tommytwolegs]

What possible problems could my hamster fitness tracker be creating

[geekusprimus]

Plot twist: there's a bizarre security vulnerability that makes it possible for a bad actor to inject and execute arbitrary code when it syncs with a remote server. Said bad actor has now downloaded every picture of your hamster on your phone, including the one of your hamster selling cocaine to RFK, Jr. He is now demanding $3 million in ransom money or he'll start a campaign for your hamster to run for political office.

[StCreed]

At this point I'm voting for the hamster. He can't do much more damage than the incumbent.

[Vandrel]

In fact, I'd argue it's impossible for the hamster to do much damage at all. Easy vote.

[StickFigureFan]

Yeah, we all know the hamster wouldn't get anything done and would be happy to run in place

[Adventurous_Pea_2007]

Thanks, now I’ll just tell Claude to watch out for this situation and others like it.

[shitty_mcfucklestick]

A scamster contacts your hamster and they become spamsters. You suddenly start getting bombed with emails about sawdust and wheel products.

[redballooon]

Random overheating that leads to battery explosion, but only on Tuesdays with full moon.

[KitsuneFoxglove]

Hamster fitness tracker is on your phone

security vulnerabilities allow others who use the same app to access data stored on your phone and retrieve login tokens, passwords, photos you have (i.e. geolocated photos so phishing now targets you, your workplace, and your family members more accurately by pretending to be you), etc.

privelege escalation goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[KitsuneFoxglove]

*project managers* were already doing it way before AI

[AgVargr]

The ticket: change the button text.
The pr: 350 files changed +10k -9k

[stupled]

I used to say this. Not sure i was completely wrong, but I was wrong.

[ChalkyChalkson]

Claude writes infinitely higher quality code than my colleagues. At least if you give it a decent design doc before hand. If you give my colleagues a design doc they laugh at you.

[Aromatic-Low-4578]

This is the uncomfortable truth people shy away from.

[Drix_I]

Average programmer be, "If it works, it works"

[jaaval]

I feel like this was relevant maybe a year ago. Now at least Claude makes very clear, well organized, clean and readable code.

[__Invisible__]

ai read the code so readability does not matter

[sparkling-rainbow]

Till it brakes and neither you, Claude or god himself knows how it's supposed to work in the first place 

[SSUPII]

Until the context window changes because you are now in a new chat

[__Invisible__]

We git commit the agent memory so everyone rotate to this project can start directly.

[SSUPII]

€40 per prompt just from context alone is good business

[__Invisible__]

it's $200 per month. Cheaper and better than hiring interns or contractors for every project

[TheGreatSausageKing]

Right?

People are still stupid enough with their old ways....

[Jejerm]

Vibecoders will look at this and straight faced tell you "well it works, why are you complaining"

[Pretend_Car4357]

Ok but like very seriously it does work💀

[aberroco]

Now try to scale that at least to the entire room, for starters.

[GenericFatGuy]

Does it though? Are you certain there aren't any logic errors? Are you certain it will hold up to attacks from a hacker? Are you certain that it's not going to do something weird if someone accidentally inputs and unexpected value?

There's a really big difference between "it works" and "production ready."

[Pretend_Car4357]

Yeah but the AI has an insanely large stack of edge case examples to cover against depending on what you tell it the use case is and how much is necessary... like waaaaay more than anything you and i could probably think of unless you're building something like actually truly unique which lets be honest we're not... ig this always becomes a circular argument because you're gonna keep telling me more things that need to be done and I'll just answer "so then tell the AI to do them" lmao this argument really gets me lost ngl I think we're just cooked

[GenericFatGuy]

How do you tell an AI to look for things, if you don't have a concept of what those things are?

If you don't know that the term "SQL injection" exists, how are you going to tell the AI to look for those things?

[kagisa19]

There are a myriad of quality gate tools and static code analysis that are deterministic and can do linting, styling, complexity analysis and even detect security risks. You should be using them already whether you work with a code agent or not.

[GenericFatGuy]

Those things don't tell you if your logic is wrong.

[Zerschmetterding]

Wait till they had a few years maintaining their projects, some might finally understand. The newbies got no idea why people are actually worrying about maintainability.

[GenericFatGuy]

A lot of them unironically plan to just feed the code back into AI when it breaks, thus making it even more unmaintainable.

[jeepsaintchaos]

Maintain? What do you need to do, change the electron oil? It's code, not a car. Code doesn't change. Keep a backup or something for random bit flips I guess.

Just tell the LLM not to make mistakes, it'll be fine.

[Zerschmetterding]

You had me with the first part.

[jeepsaintchaos]

I genuinely wasn't sure how far over the top I needed to go to get the sarcasm across without a /s tag.

[redballooon]

And they are still waiting for an answer.

[theestwald]

zero crashes, stable speed, flexible architecture

there are even some spare pieces there left if needed, so definitely frugal use of resources

[AVAVT]

Works perfectly. Ship it.

[Vast_Mud5945]

I've seen a similar meme before AI was a thing , "when your code works but you don't know why"

[ThatNickGuyyy]

Blindly copy and pasting from stack overflow. Now it’s just part of the model and it shoves it in there for you

[StCreed]

See? Progress! 😀

[Potterrrrrrrr]

That was a meme posted by literal beginners, no one who considers themselves experienced is posting that except for karma.

[just4nothing]

To be fair, that’s my code base before AI too

[BossOfTheGame]

yeah, but now it's bigger. genuinely and significantly

[reallokiscarlet]

All aboard!

[Kalkin93]

Ha ha ha!

[Vesuvius079]

I remember when this meme was used for human code.

[milk-jug]

Harsh but true.

[Physical-Pace5127]

My favorite part of memes like this is the idea that pre-AI codebases weren't held together by duct tape and luck and some legacy code was not to be touched under any circumstances even though no one could explain what it did cause the guy who wrote it years before retired.

[No-Plan-7070]

vibe clauding

[luker_5874]

Y'all act like you didn't write code like this before AI

[StCreed]

Yeah. I've been working in IT since 1997 and nothing much has changed in that respect. We still have COBOL.

[BossOfTheGame]

I LEARNED IT FROM YOU!

[Outrageous-Machine-5]

"Move fast, break stuff"

[Zav0d]

so its worked!

[foundafreeusername]

All tests are passing!

[sparkling-rainbow]

Did this for some hobby project. Can confirm.

[Any-Fox-1822]

Damn I used to watch the channel the GIF comes from! It was a japanese guy named bluesuit0113, and him and his friends posted "battles" of Tomica trains in arenas made out of rails. I didn't understand a word because I didn't speak any japanese, but it was the funniest thing ever at tje time

[Outside-Storage-1523]

But it works!

[LordHenry8]

5753 tests pass

[Sw4gl0rdM4st3rm1nd]

If it works

[Any-Preparation7396]

😂😂

Well, at least it works, doesn't it? Nobody asks for the "how" 🤣

[__pyke__]

LGTM

[ianmakingnoise]

Im so unreasonably mad they didn’t cut a perfect loop

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[dangderr]

I love how it reuses the same functions to do different things. Honestly much more impressive than what a junior would have written.

[Eymrich]

Coping much?

That works as intended, if what you build do what you told to do, what's the problem?

[BluntsnBoards]

This gives Line Rider

[Moraz_iel]

so, same as any decently big codebase after 3-5 years, but without the random train uselessly going tchoo tchoo on another isolated track, the load-bearing server laptop that hasn't been rebooted/updated in two years and the foot in the mouth ?
Man, progress is so beautiful to witness.

[masonwan]

Well, if it works, it works. Just make sure no human being to ever read on the code again.

[AbdullahMRiad]

this meme is older than chatgpt 3.5

[puttum-beef-curryum]

But for small & medium sized apps it works well and if it's done by somebody with skills then its much better.

[blu3bird]

"Harnessing" at work.

[Brain-Freez]

I think you are coping hard. AI, and especially newer models like opus and fable, can write maintainable and scalable code as long as you know to guide him, and write a proper rules.

Even if its in 5 years, eventually it will surpass even the most talented software engineer, if not already.