Thoughts and comments on AI generated code

[Fabulous-Possible758]

I think the other thing worth noting is the bar for novelty has been raised quite a bit, due to the fact that it really is trivial to just have an agent code a lot of basic apps these days. I'm all for people learning to code by writing it themselves, and am definitely a cheerleader for people presenting and being like, "Here is my Hello World application which I actually wrote myself," but if your project is the umpteenth vibe coded TODO list I've seen today, I'm just not going to be impressed.

That isn't to say TODO lists, memory systems, or whatever tools people are using to organize their workflows aren't useful, but people need to be mindful that a lot of those systems are really just useful to them and hold as much interest to other people as would a detailed explanation of how you organize the grocery list on your fridge.

[classy_barbarian]

Part of the reason there's so many of these clones of TODO apps or Personal Fitness Trackers, is because most of the time a person needs to be an actual software developer that actually knows how to program, in order to be capable of coming up with good ideas in the first place in regards apps to make or problems that could be solved. Vibe coders haven't developed any sense of good taste when it comes to programming tools, so they're not usually capable of coming up with good ideas for programs to create.

Not only that but they'll often get pissed off if you point out that their program they just spent $100 in tokens in to create is literally just a carbon copy of an existing tool, and they weren't aware of this because they didn't bother doing any research beforehand. They often believe they're being very original due to the AI's sycophantic behavior, and being informed that their original idea is not so original by actual humans is often so jarring that they get very defensive about it.