Since vibecoding is meant to bring the results of programming to the masses and not meant to replace good programmers I don’t feel threatened by it. It’s for quick prototyping and throwaway ideas and allows Jack the carpenter to spin up an app for “free” which might work. As a basis for communicating ideas and quick prototyping it will find its place.
Management will replace competent coders with vibe coders, consequences be damned. They will cut costs, wreak havoc, and use the temporary savings to enrich themselves before moving on to another company to repeat the destruction.
This is why the current zealotry is reckless and harmful.
Except most LLMs are not deterministic, the same prompt will, in general, produce different outputs because the sentence completion ist statistical and randomly selected
What matters is if the current output after each request complies with the given specifications, and if it's possible to solve the bugs until the code converges into stability.
Except vibe coding doesn’t work for non-programmers except in the hype propaganda. In reality these tools are only powerful in the hands of real programmers who are able to understand what is being produced and can adapt and maintain it.
To me, it's always wild to see people trying to prove this is "the future" and "no one will ever code again". And then they try to prove it by building a react todo app, something that has been done millions of times and is really just an advanced hello world project...
I've had great success using AI for some tough things, but not on an entire foreign codebase that requires domain knowledge, no matter how constrained my prompts are. As soon as your use-case goes above the average "building a small tool and make it a $4.99 saas startup", AI really only helps you with the exact code to transfer your already pre-planned pseudo-code/behavior.
And even then, you need the knowledge to understand that what the AI merged out of the millions of StackOverflow answers is actually outdated or a hallucinated API function that never existed.
