Robert Roskam@raiderrobert@mastodon.social
Vibe coders are learning. Writing code was never that hard.
For sure, coding starts hard, but it's a hard that gets easier with exercise, like any other exercise.
Figuring out what people need & solving that need. Now that's hard. Irreducibly hard. It never really gets that much easier.
Your favorite LLM, though, can't exercise anything. It doesn't even really know anything. At least not in the sense of the way we say that we know things. Does
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Robert Roskam@raiderrobert@mastodon.social
An LLM just goes in the direction you point it. It is as deep as you are in understanding something.
Sure, you can go faster in a particular direction with it. If you're going in the right direction, you'll get there faster. If you're going in the wrong direction, you'll also get there faster. That's valuable.
But knowing if it's the right or the wrong direction, that's on you.
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