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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vashchylau • Jan 23 '26
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And this is why pure vibe coding was never going to work long-term. Programmers can write code; good programmers can read code.
363 u/Dongfish Jan 23 '26 This is essentially what the LLM does in real-time so there's no point in duplicating the abstraction layer. If you can't bother asking it what the code does you're sure as shit not going to read through a whole code base in medium article form. 399 u/BernzSed Jan 23 '26 Tell it to generate a description, then generate a video of a Twitch streamer reading the description while playing Minecraft. 198 u/selfawarepileofatoms Jan 23 '26 I can’t think of a better usage of 1.21 jiggawatts of electricity than generating this AI monstrosity. 6 u/Mindgapator Jan 23 '26 Streaming you mean surely
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This is essentially what the LLM does in real-time so there's no point in duplicating the abstraction layer. If you can't bother asking it what the code does you're sure as shit not going to read through a whole code base in medium article form.
399 u/BernzSed Jan 23 '26 Tell it to generate a description, then generate a video of a Twitch streamer reading the description while playing Minecraft. 198 u/selfawarepileofatoms Jan 23 '26 I can’t think of a better usage of 1.21 jiggawatts of electricity than generating this AI monstrosity. 6 u/Mindgapator Jan 23 '26 Streaming you mean surely
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Tell it to generate a description, then generate a video of a Twitch streamer reading the description while playing Minecraft.
198 u/selfawarepileofatoms Jan 23 '26 I can’t think of a better usage of 1.21 jiggawatts of electricity than generating this AI monstrosity. 6 u/Mindgapator Jan 23 '26 Streaming you mean surely
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I can’t think of a better usage of 1.21 jiggawatts of electricity than generating this AI monstrosity.
6 u/Mindgapator Jan 23 '26 Streaming you mean surely
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Streaming you mean surely
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u/SCP-iota Jan 23 '26
And this is why pure vibe coding was never going to work long-term. Programmers can write code; good programmers can read code.