A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

/dev

We're still be writing code in 5 years for the same reasons people take photographs: we enjoy doing it

We're still be writing code in 5 years for the same reasons people take photographs: we enjoy doing it 

https://stevedylan.dev/posts/vibe-coding-and-kodak-cameras

DX Engineer | Head of Developer Relations at /pinata | Building orbiter.host | stevedylan.dev/links | opinions are my own

> Instead of discouraging them, why not show interest in what they’re building and offer our help? If they are truly falling in love with programming, we have the opportunity to encourage them towards competence.

This is great advice, but calling it “vibe coding” already diminishes the effort new coders are putting in. Instead of focusing on what they’ve built, snobs are dismissing their work outright instead of appreciating their curiosity and progress

I personally really like vibe coding as a term, it's playful. It demystifies the act of instructing a computer to do predictable routines. And maybe I'm optimistic but I never found it used in a derogatory way, unless mentioned by folks who are generally anti-AI to which I think that's a totally different issue!

I can agree with that. It does make it more friendly. And I’m def not anti-AI but I pay close attention to how narratives are built up and who stands to benefit the most