David Beazley1d ago
David Gerard

> Doesn't matter. He has no vision. The point, and there IS a point buried in here somewhere under the Wild Turkey and the gunpowder residue and the faint smell of burning silicon, is that the entire vibe coding movement was a confidence trick played on people who didn't know enough about software to understand they were being conned, by people who ALSO didn't know enough about software to understand they were conning anyone. It was a consensual mutual hallucination. A folie à deux at scale. A collective agreement to pretend that typing English sentences into a chat window was the same thing as engineering, the same way a child pretends that a cardboard box is a spaceship, except the child doesn't charge $20 a month for the cardboard box and the child's cardboard box didn't leak 1.5 million API keys into the open internet.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fear-loathing-vibe-coding-abyss-mark-musson-r2age/

FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE VIBE CODING ABYSS

A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Silicon Dream It was somewhere around 3am on a Tuesday when the drugs began to take hold and I realised that six point six billion dollars had been poured into a machine that writes code the way a hundred monkeys write poetry: with great enthusiasm and no compreh

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Show threadRycochet2d ago
@davidgerard Vibe coders are the Libertarians of engineering. Loud, overwhelmingly white men with supremel and entirely undeserved confidence, with their brains rotted out by things that tell them they are not the asshole for being irredeemably selfish. When things pan out the way they always do, the society they shunned and actively worked to harm will be expected to run to their rescue... Sadly there are no metaverse bears or mountain lions to eat them and their mountain of digital garbage first.
Show threadMarianne2d ago
@davidgerard agh if only it weren't on fking linkedin
Show threadOrb 20691d ago

@noodlemaz
The fact that nobody at LinkedIn has deleted it yet gives me hope that the fucking morons might someday move on to their next stupidity.

@davidgerard

Show threadLanda 1d ago
@Orb2069 i guess the next thing will be „quantum“ :)
Show threadPaul Rietschka2d ago

@davidgerard This is such an important observation.

These utter morons are being led by a gaggle of pied pipers into a cave, where they'll be predictably murdered.

Show threadOrb 20691d ago

@prietschka

Or at least lose a kidney.

@davidgerard

Show threadPaul Rietschka1d ago

@Orb2069 @davidgerard I'd gleefully harvest the kidneys of all these fools.

It seems like a growth industry.

Show threadGeoff Wozniak2d ago
@davidgerard Of course, Clay Cunningham swoops into the comments to make that tired Wright Brothers analogy, conveniently ignoring the fact that the post already argues for a place where they seem to have benefit.
Show threadHoward Fox1d ago
@davidgerard I'm a fan of hunter thompson so this was a good read, funny thing is, I fell victim to 'vibe coding' -I didn't know what it was since I didn't know how to code. Ai will not teach you how to code.
Show threadJohn Abbe (aka Slow)1d ago

@howardfoxtail @davidgerard COBOL also does not teach anyone how to code, and its entrance into the field did not end up replacing programmers, instead the business people who kept at it using COBOL turned into programmers. Like this author I don't expect the *exact* same thing to happen, but something that rhymes, something in ways similar to that result, certainly seems possible.

Haven't coded in forever but I can see using these things dragging me back in. https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html

Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade

Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers.

Caimito Agile Life
Show threadDavid Gerard23h ago
@slowenough gotta say, that's an inane comparison that nobody should take seriously
Show threadBelakor1d ago

@davidgerard Yup! To me this is just the next evolution of the "magic tooling that even your janitor can use to write apps core to your business". I got my first job as a programmer while I was still in High School. I've seen this kind of shit come and go since then and it all, fundamentally, stems from one truth.

Companies HATE having to pay programmers/engineers. It really is that simple.

Show threadquixote1d ago

@davidgerard "Mutual hallucination" is right.

I've coded a "hello world" program in an intro class, and a couple of other things of similar complexity, and -- for cryin out loud -- even ^I^ knew when the vibe coding thing first appeared that it couldn't work.

I didn't have any incentive to want to believe, though.