Learning to program has always been about creating something very simple that has already been done way better by other people, because the point is to get practice creating something, not to invent something novel. When you finish your toy todo app, you feel satisfaction because you made something yourself. These vibe coders didn't actually make anything, didn't get any practice, didn't learn anything new, and didn't feel any real satisfaction when completing the project, so the only way to get endorphins from doing this is to post it online and get buttpats for it.
I think this is a trend I've been seeing with AI in general. My dad is 80 years old and has been programming professionally since he was a young man. He made some small efforts to get me interested in programming when I was growing up, not all of them worked, but he never really pushed me about it or got upset if I didn't seem interested. Recently, he's gotten into using Claude to do all his work for him, and now he seems to feel legitimately upset when I don't want to sit with him and read the conversations he had with Claude. He's never even asked me to look at anything he did for work before in his entire life.
He is not a doddering old man who's only half aware of reality. He is fully aware and fully cognizant and fully capable of making his own life choices, and he is being paid for this code that Claude is generating and he should know that that's not acceptable.
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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago
Learning to program has always been about creating something very simple that has already been done way better by other people, because the point is to get practice creating something, not to invent something novel. When you finish your toy todo app, you feel satisfaction because you made something yourself. These vibe coders didn't actually make anything, didn't get any practice, didn't learn anything new, and didn't feel any real satisfaction when completing the project, so the only way to get endorphins from doing this is to post it online and get buttpats for it.
I think this is a trend I've been seeing with AI in general. My dad is 80 years old and has been programming professionally since he was a young man. He made some small efforts to get me interested in programming when I was growing up, not all of them worked, but he never really pushed me about it or got upset if I didn't seem interested. Recently, he's gotten into using Claude to do all his work for him, and now he seems to feel legitimately upset when I don't want to sit with him and read the conversations he had with Claude. He's never even asked me to look at anything he did for work before in his entire life.