3 ms·
I now have 5 "vibe coded" programs in our production chain at my non-tech company. Some have been running for over two years now. I think what tech companies m
by Workaccount2 2y ago
I now have 5 "vibe coded" programs in our production chain at my non-tech company. Some have been running for over two years now.
I think what tech companies miss is that customers buy these expensive feature packed software suites and then use 3% of the functionality. Cutting edge LLM's, and especially the newer thinking ones, are incredibly talented at creating programs that offer 3% the functionality of software suites.
Just a few weeks ago we skipped out on a $1k/mo CAD package because claude wrote a program with a simple GUI that enabled our engineers to do the one task we needed the custom CAD software for (Manually creating part placement files from 90's era manufacturing files).
- anonzzzies 2y agoI think throwaway programs are fine here; you make them, ship them and that's it. But i'm quite sure you didn't vibe code them; you used an LLM to write a lot of code but helped it along; vibe coders cannot do that because they don't actually understand what the LLM did. It just worked, or didn't work, so they copy back and forth errors (if there are any) until it works. Using LLMs to assist writing software, sure, we do that every day and it ships. But if we don't help the LLMs when they are stuck, they don't get unstuck. They cannot solve some surprisingly trivial things which vibe coders will be stuck with.