It's another way in which LLMs reflect the misprioritisation in dev learning, itself a reflection of the economic dynamics.. we always focused too much on writing code over reading it, and this production line mentality is why anyone would believe a machine that generates code could replace a developer

We're having to fully articulate the skills in building software for the first time

@sue

This is my confusion when I talk to people who have been "learning vibe coding" I have them describe what they did and it seems they have an LLM write some provisional code for them then they revise it and fine tune it so that it does what they want.

Which is just... coding. Do they think people code without looking at examples, libraries, specifications?

If they don't do that second part then they probably don't have a program that does what they want and they did not do any coding.

@futurebird @sue 💯

I think the refining, looking at libraries, examples, specifications is a thing that’s been made so ancillary and incidental and individual. As if it’s as a weird thing only you do, that no one else does, which is maybe even a distraction from the real work of TYPING.

We’ve taken the part of the work that actually allows working software to get made and de-languaged it. We’ve made it the elephant in the room