Ironically, I’ve found that AI makes me proud of my own work because it could never come close to my wit, sass and, all out creativity that I can provide myself. Conservatives hate the concept of pride (and the Bible serves as a their weak attempt to justify that) and if they were hoping AI would take that away and ruin my dreams, they failed.
Although AI remains a fun novelty for painfully niche cases (mostly roleplay), it can never replace the blood, sweat, and tears of art.
I want to take vibe coding as a prime example since stuff like art and literature is, well, subjective (even if we all agree AI sucks at that too).
We created programming languages to help make computing easier for us. That is true. The higher level we've gotten, the more we've been able to abstract away and make life easier for ourselves. (There's a reason machine learning projects use Python.) Obviously, there were trade offs along the way but if it gets the job done. So be it.
Take C#, for example. It has become one of my favourite programming languages in recent memory. C# evolved from having a convoluted Java-style API during the Windows era to becoming one of the easiest languages to develop for when they open sourced damn near everything. Today, it only takes a few lines of code to read a JSON file. Without any main() function or any other needless overhead.
So why do we need to vibe code our way to the finish line when programming has gotten so much easier for us as it is today?
Tony 🌮 Bark