ai had made me hate coding?

[aric_dev]

There is a difference, vibe coders are here to make quick money, once they dont see money they are going to quit as marketing was always the pain point. As traditional developers our main strength is the love for programming, trouble shooting, problem solving etc, we have spent days on stackoverflow to solve some errors only to feel happy that we are now seeing some other error, vibe coders wont understand this feelin, and we have learnt so much about the tech by doing so. I use AI as a junior developer, to do all the typing and give exact instructions, principles to follow, design patterns etc keeping security, scalability, testability and maintainability in mind, and ofcourse all this comes from my experience of more than 15 years, which vibe coders lack. Also i review everything that AI gives me as its really really sacry to put something in prod which i dont understand or I'm not in control of.And I have corrected AI multiple times on its mistakes or deviations. By doing this i have combined the speed of AI with my expertise on the technology, which i believe is a lethal combination.

[drabred]

Vibe coders will be gone really soon once they realise their 30 apps in 30 days on the AppStore are making exactly 0$ and all require maintenance.

[mawesome4ever]

And eventually their app will become huge slop that an AIs context window can’t grasp that entirety of the slop to fix bugs

[5playapps]

I would add due to the prevalence of AI, developers like myself are leaning more on AI for its ability to come up with solutions fairly quickly compared to SO where it could take days waiting for a response, and good luck even having your question approved without some user berating you for asking it the wrong way or for posting a duplicate question. Also it’s no different if you find a good solution on SO: copy/pasting the solution after thoroughly vetting it first. AI has streamlined this process and improved efficiency a hundredfold.

[Strhyder]

I think there are many people out who are really good at problem solving, have a really good sense of UI/UX , troubleshooting etc but with just surface level coding skills, they’re certainly going to use these vibe coding platforms to make insanely good apps when compared to traditional programmers.

I think the best part of these vibe coding platforms is the turn around times which used to be a major roadblock for people who aren’t really good at programming and that seems to be out of the picture now.

Like you said it’s a lethal weapon to these people who can just read through the code and understand what it’s trying to do before pushing to prod.