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0 pointsffsm82mo ago0 comments

Fwiw, the article mirrors my experience when I started out too, even exactly with the same first month of vibecoding, then the next project which I did exactly like he outlined too.

Personally, I think it's just the natural flow when you're starting out. If he keeps going, his opinion is going to change and as he gets to know it better, he'll likely go more and more towards vibecoding again.

It's hard to say why, but you get better at it. Even if it's really hard to really put into words why

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devmor2mo ago· 3 in thread

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ffsm8OP2mo ago

really?

have you ever learned a skill? Like carving, singing, playing guitar, playing a video game, anything?

It's easy to get better at it without understanding why you're better at it. As a matter of fact, very very few people master the discipline enough to be able to grasp the reason for why they're actually better

Most people just come up with random shit which may or may not be related. Which I just abstained from.

SpicyLemonZest2mo ago

I've learned a number of skills, and for me none of them worked in the way you're describing. I didn't learn to cut good miter joints by randomly vibe-sawing wood until I unlocked miter joints in the skill tree. I carefully studied the errors I made, and adjusted in ways I thought might correct them, some of which helped some of which did not. Then eventually I understood the relationship between my actions and the underlying principles in enough detail to consistently hit 45 degrees.

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devmor2mo ago

You can get better at something without understanding why, but you should be able to think about it and determine why fairly easily.

This is something everyone who cares about improving in a skill does regularly - examine their improvement, the reasons behind it, and how to add to them. That’s the basis of self-driven learning.

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snovv_crash2mo ago· 1 in thread

Given how addictive vibecoding is, I think it's very hard to be objective about the results if you are involved in the process.

delusional2mo ago

It's a little like asking a cokehead how the addiction is going for him while he is high. Obviously he's going to say it's great because the consequences haven't hit him. Some percentage of addicts will never realize it was a problem at all.

Its not random that AI happens to be built by the very same people that turned internet forums into the most addictive communication technology ever.

59nadir2mo ago

> he'll likely go more and more towards vibecoding again

I think "more and more" is doing some very heavy lifting here. On the surface it reads like "a lot" to many people, I think, which is why this is hard to read without cringing a bit. Read like that it comes off as "It's very addictive and eventually you get lulled into accepting nonsense again, except I haven't realized that's what's happening".

But the truth is that this comment really relies entirely on what "more and more" means here.

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