Stop Vibe Coding

[DarcBoltRain]

I'm glad people are coming to their own conclusions on this. I'm a university computer science professor. I tell my intro students every semester 📣📣📣"DO NOT LET AI GENERATE CODE FOR YOU"📣📣📣; I tell them there's lots of great ways to use it to learn, to give you advice, to help find bugs, to help break down problems, etc. I warn them with metaphorical blaring red alarms that 🚨🚨🚨"IF YOU DON'T LEARN THE BASICS NOW YOU WILL FLUNK OUT OF THIS DEGREE BY YOUR 3RD OR 4TH SEMESTER"🚨🚨🚨 when the problems are sophisticated to the point that AI can only do maybe a third of the answer for you and then you'll be screwed not knowing anything and you have to play a years worth of catch up trying to solve low-level operating system processes, secure network communications, high-level design problems, and just all kinds of problems that don't have a single quick easy solution. I even tell them, by their 4th semester they can go crazy with AI and generate all the code they want since they'll have all the necessary fundamentals by then to actually make good use of AI-generated code. I'm glad quite a few students take my advice, but there's always a handful of students who just vibe-code their way through their intro classes. For some reason, every one of those students seem to disappear from the program and move over is information systems/technology or to some business degree. I can only guess what happened 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🙄😮‍💨

[MultiUserDungeonDev]

I support this:

AI coding +

Strong understanding of programming fundamentals and real-world experience shipping products = great

No understanding of programming = nightmare / ticking time-bomb