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[–] janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 157 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Vibecoding:

  • go to chatgpt
  • ask it to make an app
  • ask it to fix errors (ad infinitum)
  • ???
  • sell app (optional)
  • get sued and ruin your reputation (hopefully)
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Largely accurate apart from special-purpose tools usually being employed instead of ChatGPT

[–] janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same thing. Coding agents just automate the third step and waste even more money and energy.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The ??? isn’t a reference to underpants gnomes. It’s just that no one has ever gotten LLMs to actually fix its own bugs to find out what that step is