alt Hacker News"Still, I was determined not to write any code ... I just sat laughing as the computer wrote code."
I can pop over to Midjourney and be determined not to draw a single line and "sit there laughing" as it draws the Mona Lisa in the style of Salvador Dali but with a turnip instead of a person.
How is this any different? What is ultimately notable about it? Did any of it make you a better programmer?
I'm always deeply impressed when people devote significant chunks of their time to achieving extraordinary results. I'm entirely baffled, however, that there's anything at all interesting about using an AI interface to build an AI interface to connect you to AI slop.
You could have spent 20 hours planting trees or doing some kind of community serivce, and the world would have been a far better place.
Programming is not art. In the end, nobody will care whether software was painstakingly hand-chiseled by humans in a dungeon or "vibe coded", as long as the result is good enough. (I'd argue that art will "suffer" from the same "problem".)
What is notable here is that someone is demonstrating that the systems are reaching a quality where this is possible.
> Did any of it make you a better programmer?
By conventional metrics, if the job got done well enough in less time, yes, even if less skill is involved.