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Confessions of a vibe-augmented coder:
The value of others' open source code went down. My own version is only a prompt away. I was working on something the other way, my AI agent has found a library that was doing exactly what I needed. The AI agent checked it out, said the idea is clever, but wiring and auditing a third party library was more difficult than just doing it from scratch.
A friend was making a knowledge retrieval bot. I have a RAG pipeline. I explained to him why keyword search is inferior to semantic vector lookup. He understood. Coded rag. Didn't touch my code.
It's amazing, but also it feels very strange. The only thing is when "one prompt away" turns into half day vibing session. We could have saved time and the tokens. But mainly time.
It also exaggerates the feeling of someone else's code feeling a bit dirty if you know what I mean. They use a language we don't like. Oh, they don't use poetry or uv for dependency management? They ask me to run docker? OMG, that's dirty, I'll just vibe it myself...
What we forget is that open source projects are (sometimes) maintained and updated. We lose that. If someone has an idea to make something better, we don't get that improvement with one git pull.
Strange. But also ... My code is exactly for me. Just right.
I think a fun thing to do would be to have something like lightning talks, but people would show their pet projects and explain why they are made that way and why they are great. If not using the code itself, we might at least use the ideas.
Confessions of a vibe-augmented coder:
The value of others' open source code went down. My own version is only a prompt away. I was working on something the other way, my AI agent has found a library that was doing exactly what I needed. The AI agent checked it out, said the idea is clever, but wiring and auditing a third party library was more difficult than just doing it from scratch.
A friend was making a knowledge retrieval bot. I have a RAG pipeline. I explained to him why keyword search is inferior to semantic vector lookup. He understood. Coded rag. Didn't touch my code.
It's amazing, but also it feels very strange. The only thing is when "one prompt away" turns into half day vibing session. We could have saved time and the tokens. But mainly time.
It also exaggerates the feeling of someone else's code feeling a bit dirty if you know what I mean. They use a language we don't like. Oh, they don't use poetry or uv for dependency management? They ask me to run docker? OMG, that's dirty, I'll just vibe it myself...
What we forget is that open source projects are (sometimes) maintained and updated. We lose that. If someone has an idea to make something better, we don't get that improvement with one git pull.
Strange. But also ... My code is exactly for me. Just right.
I think a fun thing to do would be to have something like lightning talks, but people would show their pet projects and explain why they are made that way and why they are great. If not using the code itself, we might at least use the ideas.
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