A vibe programmer that built a palm-sized fusion reactor in a cave over the course of 3 months with a single companion? Perfectly respectable to me. And he probably made his own AI too :)

I've always imagined peak programming as building up from low level languages, putting on some layers of abstraction and automatization written by yourself, and end up writing some trivial commands to produce very interesting outputs... Who knows? Maybe throwing around some holograms and voice-commands asking for nonsense. It doesn't get much more vibey than that.

Programming in vim and emacs does look like that lol.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

A vibe programmer that built a palm-sized fusion reactor in a cave over the course of 3 months with a single companion

With a box o scraps!

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

He leaves out that the "box of scraps" was essentially a complete selection of all the parts used by his company to make their weapons. He was basically given a couple each of every Lego set ever (already assembled !) and then tore them apart to make one big thing. It's impressive, but it's not like he reinvented modern technology from scratch. I'd call that "vibe engineering" at worst.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago

So what i get out of this is if you make your own homemade llm then we can call it "vibe" coding. Otherwise, if your just farting around on sone corporate data mining llm then it's fart coding?