The odd thing about vibe coding is that they've managed to automate the fun part of writing software.
This may result in me severely cutting back on coding for the first time in 45 years.
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(There's an implicit assumption in my last parenthetical that I glossed over, which is this: AI "art" isn't art because for it to be art requires human intention. So if I write a novel, it's art but if an LLM extrudes a novel of equivalent readability, it's not art because it doesn't stem from a human's experiences. Code is the same way, but it's also a functional artifact so this isn't immediately obvious.)
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Also: writing, drawing, etc. Using GenAI means outsourcing the important, creative part to an aggressively mediocre tool and then trying to clean up the shit it extrudes into something passably acceptable.
(As someone who considers software a form of creative expression, LLMs led to something of a crisis for me. I finally got around it by realizing that coding is still a human and creative activity and doing it myself had meaning that LLM extrusions did not.)