I don't want to start a flame war or anything, but I spent half of today #VibeCoding a solar system exploration #game and a #python program to create montages of the images in a folder. Also started on a modern #WindowMaker Dock App for #Fluxbox.
Imagine what I (barely amateur level programmer) will be able to (ask an LLM to) do in a couple of years? Will it destroy Open Source? Will it end proprietary software? How will the powers that be capture it and monetize it?
Finished #VibeCoding fluxCalClock and fluxMatrix as replacements for the venerable wmCalClock and wmMatrix on my main #Fluxbox on #Gentoo machine.
Bigger (64x64 is getting too small these days), support for command line options & simple config files, and written in rust.
I hope to do wmMoon and wmWeather when I have time (maybe spring break?)
top right of my screen, showing the original and new apps. need to update the slitlist to put the flux versions at the top.
@chris_spackman the cost of producing at least some categories of software will go down a lot, open source had done that already, and high level languages too, but these things indeed lower the barrier again.
I've been building a system for myself for a few weeks, that i wouldn't have had the time and stamina to build before, as an experienced dev (20+ years). It's on par (at least for the features i care about) with commercial competition with years of development.
@chris_spackman I think a lot of this software simply won't be distributed at all, it'll stay in the homes and companies of people that built them, because it won't really make sense to sell them, and neither will it to make them open source, nobody want to review LLM MRs on their free time, and the code of these apps is not the interesting part anyway.
And for now, at least, vibe coding systems that the real world can interact with seems like a dangerous idea.
True --- a lot of personalized software will stay at home or at work and never see anyone else,
I wonder, though, if some programs might be worth sharing, if only so people who don't have time or don't know how to "vibe code" can use them. Chicken and egg issue though is that those people wouldn't know where to go looking for these programs.
Copyright is ??? Human direction but not human created = public domain? Can it be open sourced?
very interesting point --- LLMS require large amounts of data. many knowledge areas no doubt do not have a lot of readily available data. But, how many people actually push the boundaries of any field of knowledge? If you can't, are LLMs and AI agents coming for your job? (more accurately, will some capitalist replace you with an LLM or AI agent because it is cheaper?)
We live in the most interestingest of times.
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