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And most importantly, you don't care at all if the tool you vibe-coded is any good. If you write at tool that converts an image to black & white, you are the ki
by lionkor 5mo ago
And most importantly, you don't care at all if the tool you vibe-coded is any good. If you write at tool that converts an image to black & white, you are the kind of person who doesn't know or care what KIND of black&white it is. The fact that there are many algorithms to choose from would never cross your mind.
The same happens with whatever tool you vibe-code. You get the average of the worst quality open source versions that exist, combined with some randomness.
This is not "do one thing and do it well", this is "do one thing no matter how".
- Foobar8568 5mo agoNot really when I get up to 2-10 times the throughput of the state of art open-source library on their own benchmarks. And I don't have 10k -100k to blow on Nvidia cards nor to buy a few 100gb of RAM.
- pu_pe 5mo ago> And most importantly, you don't care at all if the tool you vibe-coded is any good. If you write at tool that converts an image to black & white, you are the kind of person who doesn't know or care what KIND of black&white it is. The fact that there are many algorithms to choose from would never cross your mind. Why do you believe that? What if I care so much about black and white and need a specific algorithm, isn't it much better to do that through a tool I can control rather than any proprietary one?
- lionkor 5mo ago... because there are open source tools that implement these things properly? Take Darktable, if you try to build an alternative because you "just want to do a bit of color grading" you will produce garbage. My point is that AI bros are forgetting that the LLM is only as good as the person using it. If you don't sufficiently understand the problem you're solving, your solution will be terrible. If you believe that AI will simply take that work away from you and do it itself, you should ask your favorite LLM to explain how LLMs work.
- TeMPOraL 5mo ago> ... because there are open source tools that implement these things properly? Take Darktable, if you try to build an alternative because you "just want to do a bit of color grading" you will produce garbage. ... only if you don't pay attention. The existence and popularity of Darktable literally means that LLMs have a reference implementation on-hand and probably seen some of it in training too. If for some reason they don't immediately go looking at it, then you can always ask. > If you don't sufficiently understand the problem you're solving, your solution will be terrible. Fortunately the LLM is able to help you with first understanding the problem space, too. Just don't expect it today to zero-shot things you don't understand well enough.
- lionkor 5mo agoI agree with you, and my issue is exactly that seemingly the popular opinion here is that you CAN zero-shot things you don't understand.
- theshrike79 5mo agoBut what if I _only_ need to convert images to black and white, why would I install a full ass Darktable setup for that?
- whywhywhywhy 5mo agoYeah but what happens when you do know the names of the algorithms… Like an experienced digital artist would.
- lionkor 5mo agoYou're saying that, if I go and vibe-code an app to implement a couple of those algorithms, they will be correctly implemented?