The Copilot Delusion
"we’ll normalize this mediocrity. Cement it in tooling. Turn it into a best practice. We'll enshrine this current bloated, sluggish, over-abstracted hellscape as the pinnacle of software."
Enlightened perspective on AI coding assistant but also superb writing.
https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/ #ai #assistant #coding #vibecoding
On vibe coding:
I used to take notes with pen & paper in school even though I could just use my phone and record the whole lecture. Writing it myself with pen & paper increased my understanding of the topic.
Similarly - I can "vibe" code and I can make sure I read all the code the vibe generates... but I won't understand it nearly as well. And maybe that's okay - if your management is fine with relying on cursor to resolve incidents.
Consider this: Would you like to live on the 20th floor of a building built on the vibes of someone who only knows what such a structure looks like from the outside?
Would you like to fly on a plane vibed together by someone who only knows planes from looking at them?
No?
Well, now you know why vibe coding is such a completely insane & stupid & dangerous idea.
"Finally, the most accessible option is “no-code” products like Replit and Lovable, which live in the web browser and are optimized for non-engineers. You can brainstorm a quick prompt like, “Make me a website to display the new albums I listen to each month,” and within minutes, get a functioning website and URL.
This approach has been dubbed “vibe coding” by Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher who was on the founding team of OpenAI and led AI at Tesla. AI coding programs “are getting too good. I barely even touch the keyboard,” he wrote on X.
There has been a lot of speculation about how AI coding will help companies to create software in a leaner, faster way—and how it could threaten jobs for junior engineers. In April, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that up to 30% of code at Microsoft was already written by AI. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects AI to code at the level of a “midlevel engineer” by the end of the year.
But the most important effect of inexpensive AI coding tools may be to bring software development to the masses, no computer science degree or billion-dollar revenue plan required. To borrow an analogy from the author and programmer Robin Sloan, AI might enable more people to program like a “home cook”—having fun making apps for their own household and community—instead of relying on fast-food operations that churn out generic apps at industrial scale."
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/your-next-favorite-app-the-one-you-make-yourself-a6a84f5f
Fun #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:
#VibeCoding
Graph databases
Predictable movies
Password managers #StackOverflow is dying
#Sitecore #MSBuild session
Simple vs. complex AI tasks
Remembering phone numbers
We're all paying for #Twitter now
See you same time next week! 
What's an #MCP server?
(Model Context Protocol)
Today #Anthropic dropped V4 of their new model. It marks a pivot in their corp direction. They are yielding the ground for chatbots to #OpenAi and the rest, and instead focusing on infrastructure. Having used paid versions of #ChatGpt and #Claude for #vibecoding it's a smart move as Claude is significantly better than ChatGpt that's been lobotomised for minimum compute burn.
Back to MCP.
LLM --> MCP --> Any app
Eg. You can connect via the MCP to Gmail and issue a prompt "Send email to all the folks in my address list called Karen, Subject: Yo, Body: Your momma!"
Sure, you COULD do it with an API, but now peasants can use it, not just #codemonkey
#Zappier is the first MCP I know. There may be others.
I think that in the very near future there is money to be made by saying "I am OLD, I don't use 'vibe coding'. I do my work by thinking really hard about how to do things. That means that things work as they are expected to and dont use tons of resources"
1. This looks like an easy task for an LLM coding assistant, let's give it another try!
2. Cool, nice little prototype, this actually saved me time!
3. Well, some things are not as intended, let's adjust here and there...
4. I spent more time refactoring than I would have writing it on my own from scratch.
every. single. time.
Oh joy github is tightly integrating more LLM features that encourage people browsing projects to do drive by vibe coding.
The new features have no optout and are not optin. GitHub is encouraging users to submit bug reports fully written by AI and to fix bug reports using fully AI written PRs.
A lot of maintainers of open source projects big and small really do not want this turned on by default.
#RHEL10 is here. And after the infinite joys of #vibecoding, it looks like we're now entering... the age of the vibe #sysadmin?
#Linux #RedHat #RHEL #redhatsummit #AI #enshittification
https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux-10
Video killed the radio star.
#vibecoding killed #stackoverflow
I'm starting to really like 'vibe coding'...
I've now had several clients come to me to take over projects that another agency was working on because the other agency started using generative AI. Apparently there was a real drop in product quality. I wonder why.
Basically vibe coding is making me money specifically because I'm not using it.
Lib/Nat coalition truly spearheaded the #VibeCoding movement by just kinda floating by on their warchests with little to no insight into what the hell they're doing.
｢ The user considered it was the unpaid volunteer coders’ “job” to take his AI submissions seriously. He even filed a code of conduct complaint with the project against the developers. This was not upheld. So he proclaimed the project corrupt ｣
A business owner using an LLM to "vibe code" on a production system is similar to a home owner doing electrical work using a YouTube video.
The perverse incentives of Vibe Coding
｢ What makes this especially effective with AI is the minimal effort required for potentially significant rewards — creating what neuroscientists call an “effort discounting” advantage. Combined with our innate completion bias — the drive to finish tasks we’ve started — this creates a compelling psychological loop that keeps us prompting ｣
https://uxdesign.cc/the-perverse-incentives-of-vibe-coding-23efbaf75aee
Nun gibt es auch einen Programmierassistenten von OpenAI.
Welche Assistenten nutzt ihr beim Programmieren?
#Codex #OpenAI #GitHubCopilot #Copilot #VibeCoding #DevLife #Claude
