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maddmannyesterday at 10:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

If this is the new way code is written then they are arguably learning how to code. Jury is still out though, but I think you are being a bit dismissive.


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satvikpendemtoday at 1:52 AM

I wouldn't change definitions like that just because the technology changed, I'm talking about the ability to analyze control flow and logic, not necessarily put code on the screen. What I've seen from most vibe coders is that they don't fully understand what's going on. And I include myself, I tried it for a few months and the code was such garbage after a while that I scrapped it and redid it myself.

dns_snektoday at 9:32 AM

Absolutely not. They're not writing code or performing most of the work that programmers do, therefore they're not [working as] programmers. Their work ends up producing code, but they're not coders any more than my manager is.

A "vibecoder" is to a programmer what script kiddie is to a hacker.