So something I don’t understand is the logic behind my job. I’m a software engineer, that effort makes sense to me to develop and solution and configure.
But I’ve been given a product owner role. And then I have a product manager I work with who isn’t technical.
I really don’t feel like I do much other than stress out
Yeah I gotta get my workplace to get on board with it. Rust->Webasm is simply amazing
Agile and AI rows look terribly optimistic.
In my experience, Agile you get skateboard wheels. Then you get one pair of skateboard wheels on a bike frame (no handles, wheels, seat, or pedals). Then you get a skateboard next to a bike without wheels, then you get a car with no doors, no transmission, no engine, and no gas tank, a bike with flat tires, a broken skateboard. Next you have a car engine in the car, and windows (but no doors), a duct taped skateboard, but the bike has air in the tires, but the chain is now missing, and one pedal fell off. Then you get a good portion of the car, except you forgot to account for an accelerator or brakes, you now have a bike that works though, except with only one pedal.
Finally you just end up putting the bike inside the car and it works almost Flintstone style. But you also have a new skateboard that is in pretty good shape.
It’s apparently a newly vocal (yet previously existing) trend amongst trans and drag programmers, particularly of the linux variety.
I know of one transwoman and she doesn’t do this, though we do work for a “business formal” environment.
Seems to be a bigger thing amongst the younger college CS and fresh out of college folk.
I personally find it a bit funny, but I also have the small bit of me that worries about the social-political climate and how it might impact their careers.
Amongst engineers I’ve still found an uncomfortable amount of conservatives. So even if they don’t support MAGA directly, I’d imagine they still carry a lot of that bias on “what is appropriate” or not.
So no joke, vibe coding has other real world equivalents.
I always struggled to explain how my ex cooked because it was always a toss up if it ended well, but she was definitely a “vibe cook.”
Recipe calls for searing? Fry it on a pan, flip it over fry it on the other side until cooked all the way through. Recipe calls for cream of potato? Cream of celery is fine. The only seasoning is pepper and salt? Eh, can’t hurt to use mixed seasoning salt used for burgers. Saute? Nah, just throw it in a pan.
Braised? Broiled? It’s cooked.
Ribs call for 18 hours on Low heat? 4 hours on high will do it.
Vibe coding is a way to generate crap for people who are crap at coding and for users that are used to crap.
I’m now a full-stack engineer. Instead of being ok at any layer, I don’t know what I’m doing in the UI, the Service, the Backend, the Database, the Cloud Infrastructure, and the CI/CD.
But, if anything breaks, I almost always can figure out where it broke very quickly. A fix is always unpleasant though.
And, while tested to extreme limits, somehow the end user still finds ways to break it, creating more things haphazardly stuffed in
Calling assembler code spaghetti isn’t really that fair. I mean granted, everything ends up as “syscall” this and that, but it’s still more like one long spaghetti noodle with some meatballs and sauce.
Old C code, written for like microelectronics suffers from it, sure.
But for that gud spaghetti you gotta getti the BASIC and Cobol programs. Thems is good spaghetti.
(And we’re going to ignore python right)
That’s pretty accurate.
I’ll bet our vibe coder even thought that “spaghetti” meant a fully baked app.
I can write good spaghetti without an LLM though, just it probably works the first time. And I hope to god that I don’t use that spaghetti for any real world use.
I develop with JS? All I can say is I need more brain damage to understand where is out
Alright. I don’t get it
I felt this one
I have a feeling AI won’t take my role, AI will force me to take ownership of more products. I worry greatly about that.