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Now is the golden age of vibecoded foss software and we should use it. (feddit.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by freeman@feddit.org to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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Hear me out: As we on Lemmy all know, there is the enshittification cycle. I'd argue that with LLMs/chatbots we are in the golden era. There is still a lot of VC money propping up unprofitable big tech ai firms, who then provide their LLMs for pretty cheap to get the consumers and advertisers hooked.

In a few years I assume that the prices will go up, maybe even the quality will go down if the ai companies dont find a solution for the ais eating their own shit problem.

So now is the best time to make AI products.

The whole copyright for code from small applications is already pretty over in my opinion.

So now: Lets build a lot of small tools/programms (I am thinking of GUI for ffmpeg, pixelart-editor and so on) with LLMs. In the future we can still improve them, either with or without LLMs.

(I am not really 100% of that opinion, but that thought came to mind and I am not really sure why it wouldnt be a good idea)

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[-] motionofethre@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

I vibe code a lot. But I'm also 10+ years into professional level engineering.

My vibe coder friends are NOT experienced. My vibe coder colleagues produce piles of shit for me to fix.

I honestly think AI coding can be really good, but you need to read the source and understand the architecture. You also need you need to know how to engineer

I otherwise fully agree. AI is useful IF you are smart. And know is dirt cheap, so I build a bunch of projects I want knowing eventually I'll have to code by hand once prices go up

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