david celisI became a software engineer because writing code is fun. Thinking through hard problems, designing elegant solutions, seeing the things you’ve built working for the first time… these moments are all deeply satisfying, so why in the world would I ever surrender them to AI?
The ServitorThese articles miss the point I think. You see it as something lost. These poor people missing out on the fun of a complex and intellectually satisfying profession.
But... most of these millions people who have now experienced "vibe-coding" aren't *trying* to be software professionals and don't miss the satisfaction. They are just suddenly able to do things they couldn't. They're proud of running their first scripts! That's really fun.
Otto RaskAt the root of it, vibe-coding is fun like watching hurled spaghetti form shapes is.
And yet a search for "art inspired by spaghetti" would return hundreds of images (much of it pre-AI), and Jackson Pollock inspired a whole aesthetic.
"Art inspired by spaghetti" and "watching actual hurled spaghetti form random shapes" are two different contexts.
Jackson Pollock is a pretty interesting example to choose here. Did you know most people disliked their art and style (among other modern artists of the time), but it was artificially promoted by cold war CIA to make the US seem more culturally versatile when compared to USSR and their allies?
Sounds like a similar situation with certain kind of slop that has been doing the rounds lately.