My account is seventeen years old, and I've been coding more than forty years; is that enough to meet your standards?

I do love the weird new world we're in. I feel as though I've been a player in an orchestra all my life, doing a little one-man-band act on the side, and suddenly I've been handed the baton and now I get to conduct the whole show.

I think it all comes down to whether or not they enjoyed coding in the first place.

For me it's mixed. There's aspects of coding I do enjoy but also there's tedium that I don't. What I don't like about vibe coding is it has turned me into just a code reviewer in a lot of cases.

I've been coding since the 1990s and I love vibe coding with sensible guardrails and code/design reviews.

I've been programming for decades, and I do love vibe coding side-projects. I have a little pixel art / animation tool, a music composition tool, and a little video game builder that agents made for my kids. I haven't looked at a line of code. Instead, I've just focused on getting the UX and features that I want. I did guide it along the tech stack and general philosophy I wanted it to follow, though. I'm sure it's hot garbage, but for projects like this, it doesn't really matter, and it's been a lot of fun.

Would I want to build a business around products that are built this way? Not yet. I'm definitely not comfortable supporting a vibe coded heap of code in a production setting.

That's a valid assessment, and a reminder why I keep using 4chan despite how awful it is.

I've been programming since I got a Commodore VIC-20 when I was seven years old.

I love AI coding because I can use it to automate all the parts that are not fun or that would take far, far too much time to implement by hand. It puts things within reach that would formerly be unthinkable without millions of dollars and a gigantic software development team.

I still also enjoy coding things by hand... interesting, original things.

The technology itself is also absolutely fascinating. I've followed AI research for a long time and played around with it a lot, but the incredible breakthroughs of the last 5-10 years have blown me away. I've been working through the math on attention layers and feel like I've almost got it, and it's genius. Very cool stuff.

(The companies behind marketing and scaling it are, to varying degrees, not cool, but the tech and science and math is.)

I've been coding since the 90s and I stopped coding by hand pretty much as soon as I could get away with it.

I grew up in the 1980s. My HackerNews account is 7 years old.

My first program was in BASIC on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum with 48K. I used to sit for hours typing "listings" from gaming magazines and save them on cassette tapes, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuVBX5Iu18I

I love coding manually, and I love AI! This is the first time I've felt the same excitement about computing since the 1980s, when there were new computers and new platforms and new operating systems and new programming languages coming out almost every month.

I use AI where it makes sense, where the output matters more than the fact that I manually coded it, like map editors and other internal tools, or quick proof-of-concepts.

I used Codex to convert some of my old Visual Basic 6 apps and games and it was a joy to see them running again. There was no way I was going to convert them manually since Microsoft abandoned VB.