I am currently vibe coding a project for tracking my money a bit (as a young person with not a lot of money). It’s going great and I’m kinda learning a few things here and there but I honestly still don’t understand the syntax of dart/flutter thousands of lines later.
I would never put this on my CV. I would never sell this app, would barely give it to friends since there’s a chance everything blows up and I’d have 0 clue how to fix it. This is a shitty tool that even with my limited understanding of app development is clearly held together by hopes, dreams, and a 20 dollar AI subscription.
Missing from the meme: “It already existed, but nobody bothered an eye to it back then.”
This, and people promoting it so much. I feel like my projects will lose value because anyone can just put projects in GitHub and people aren’t going to check everything to make sure you’re good.
Job market is already so noisy, it’s super hard for anyone to even look at your CV unless you have connections. And the projects I’ve put years of effort are becoming less and less relevant.
And what even is the point of making my tool open source and putting years of effort into it when someone can just feed it to their AI, generate something that’s similar but with fancy website and promoting it using their platform
And then they will get mad at you for not thanking them for ripping off your code.
However, I am curious, what are/were you working on? I always like to hear what people are cooking up.
Go to r/redditalternatives on reddit and you’ll find almost all the projects there are vibe coded. What’s harrowing is these projects have a login page too. Buddy if you’re creating accounts here, consider yourself pwned.
:lemmy_gold:
> “hey everyone look at this new cool foss project!”
> look inside
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i always feel kinda sad for the contributors who are, like, 3rd or 4th on these projects. imagine being a prominent contributor to something and be of less importance than the puke machine
The icon really does look like a bird poop
It’s clearly a butthole?
Yes yes yesssss.
this 100%
I hate this.
Somebody made a FOSS AutoCAD? (Open CAD studio) looks inside: mantainer on reddit: look how i vibecoded a whole ahh cad program.
We already have a decent AutoCAD FOSS solution in FreeCAD. I haven’t used the 2D drawing function much but what I have used, it was decent.
Just plagiarism all the way down.
All books are just plagiarised from the dictionary
And abandoned within three weeks. Also does the same thing as at least a dozen other tools that already existed. But it has a snazzy name and a whole website like it’s something great, which it’s not.
I don’t mind the “does the same thing”, I do that myself because I’ve been burned by single use tools becoming everything apps slowly. (*arr stack apps tend to do this…) My apps are just on GitHub and only for me.
What I do mind is buying a domain and making a snazzy landing page for what is pretty much a weekend project. Oh and a Discord “community” with more channels than users.
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More importantly, I don’t use Discord and I am not going to sign up for a second account on top of GitHub or whatever just to interact with your project.
Kinda shows what a good name/brand can do for a project. I like open source but my god the names for some of the projects are the worst.
If we are commit years of our lives to a project maybe take more than a minute to come up with a name :/
I find tech startup names far worse.
Especially the ones where they just… spell something wrong, like Lyft or Grindr. (Not startups anymore, I know, but that’s how they got the name).
But I wouldn’t mind if you convinced me otherwise with some good examples lol
$10 says the dev is doing the project to pad their CV to try to score a job they’re not qualified for. We’re all having to deal with sorting the chaff and the grain because silicon valley loonies thought giving people access to a stochastic parrot was a great idea. Crackpots are now empowered.
The worst part about this is that new devs who are just starting out now and want to develop OS software will be under immediate fire for using LLMs even if they don’t even do it.
I mean, not vibe coding is something to be proud of nowadays, why wouldn’t you mention that in your readme?
I know I’d put an AI disclaimer there. And everyone who doesn’t believe it, sorry, this free beer just ain’t for you then.
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The like 100+ new Blender3D plugins that are sprouting like mushrooms growing on shit.
Talking about “killing the vibe”
Honestly when this happens I just put the Thanks glove on and vibe code my own version (lmao you thought). If its gonna be vibe coded at least I know I read my output and verified the code. Its honestly a fucken headache when on-demand programs should be cool.
This makes too much sense, where do you think you are?
Around here all we do is expect endless time investment from devs, zero AI committment to avoid any additional time saving, and a lifelong committment to maintenance. If a requested feature is not implemented asap or a bug not squashed withing a day it is grounds for riot.
I’ve done this as like a little “what if” one-off project, but I don’t turn around and push it as some open source tool. It stays private, I learn a thing or two, and then I move on—sometimes even archiving the repo. But even those little exercises have not been interesting to me as of late.
