Confession: I’ve been using Claude Code to write all my code for me. And I think it’s making me worse at the thing I’ve loved doing for twelve years.I can cl...
Even I was able to convince everyone in here to such a level that some of you would spontaneously fall to your knees, crying and bursting into song, praising my heuristic abilities, I am just one person and it would have no effect on anybody’s opinion about “Vibe coding”
If you believe this, that you can’t change anyone’s mind with your posts, why are you posting at all?
Bias is a thing though. How hard would you say you looked for credible articles? I just Googled “The positive effects of LLM on learning” and if my voice now sounds muffled, it’s because I am now buried under a massive pile of articles being credible all over the place.
True, I’m pretty convinced they kind of suck. Bias is a factor, as is some personal experience with them lying to me, and coworkers submitting strange code they didn’t understand. And the devaluation of labor is bad, too. They definitely can be useful tools to solve problems - I bet they can crank out working dynamic programming solutions and I never understood that stuff very well - but I don’t think they’re an amazing way to learn.
“If you believe this, that you can’t change anyone’s mind with your posts, why are you posting at all?” - Because changing minds online is a big ask. I’ve realised over the years that the best anyone can hope for is maybe planting seeds. A chance to re-start a few people’s critical thinking engines when they’ve been swept up in a wave of herd thinking.
“I don’t think they’re an amazing way to learn.” - The thing I’ve realised, especially since discovering my ADHD, is that one person’s way of learning is just one of many. I had no idea I had ADHD till much later in life and until then I thought I was broken and just couldn’t learn the way others seemed to. For me, having an ego and baggage free interlocutor to learn from, who adapts to my way of learning, rather than the other way around has been life changing.
A common condition also linked with ADHD is RSD (Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria) which basically boils down to being certain at all times that everyone is sick of interacting with me and certainly sick of trying to teach me things. ChatGPT never gets annoyed with me. It just figures out my learning language and adapts. This is why I described it in my original message as “a way to understand coding for the first time”.
If you believe this, that you can’t change anyone’s mind with your posts, why are you posting at all?
True, I’m pretty convinced they kind of suck. Bias is a factor, as is some personal experience with them lying to me, and coworkers submitting strange code they didn’t understand. And the devaluation of labor is bad, too. They definitely can be useful tools to solve problems - I bet they can crank out working dynamic programming solutions and I never understood that stuff very well - but I don’t think they’re an amazing way to learn.
“If you believe this, that you can’t change anyone’s mind with your posts, why are you posting at all?” - Because changing minds online is a big ask. I’ve realised over the years that the best anyone can hope for is maybe planting seeds. A chance to re-start a few people’s critical thinking engines when they’ve been swept up in a wave of herd thinking.
“I don’t think they’re an amazing way to learn.” - The thing I’ve realised, especially since discovering my ADHD, is that one person’s way of learning is just one of many. I had no idea I had ADHD till much later in life and until then I thought I was broken and just couldn’t learn the way others seemed to. For me, having an ego and baggage free interlocutor to learn from, who adapts to my way of learning, rather than the other way around has been life changing.
A common condition also linked with ADHD is RSD (Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria) which basically boils down to being certain at all times that everyone is sick of interacting with me and certainly sick of trying to teach me things. ChatGPT never gets annoyed with me. It just figures out my learning language and adapts. This is why I described it in my original message as “a way to understand coding for the first time”.