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Step 1: Vibe code an app.
Step 2: It's buggy as shit.
Step 3: You have no idea how to fix it because you don't actually know what you're doing.
Step 4: Your app gets terrible reviews and nobody uses it.
Step 5: Release your next vibe-coded app, because failure doesn't mean anything anymore. If developing an app is free and easy, it doesn't matter if it's a failure since you really had nothing invested in the first place.
I'm going to say something extremely controversial on something that I, as a ex-writer, lost the battle against a long long time ago.
Vibe-coded apps are like self-published ebooks. If you are a crap writer, and your book doesn't sell, there's no consequence to it. If nobody buys it, or it gets bad reviews, you don't really need to care, because it's entirely free to just keep throwing your crap out there no matter how bad it might be. You can literally bang your firsts on a keyboard for a couple of hours, pay a few bucks to upload it to Amazon and call youreself Stephen fucking King. It doesn't matter if it doesn't sell because it literally cost you pennies.
A legitimate publisher would tell you to go fuck yourself, of course. But self-publishing is like flunking out of med school and decided to set up a portable operating table on the hospital sidewalk anyway because "How dare some gatekeeper tell you that you're not good enough."
Vibe-Coders are of the exact same ilk. Gatekeepers exist for a reason, in both publishing and app development. If your work is crap, the response is to GET BETTER, not say "Fuck it, I'm doing it anyway"
Sorry....rant over. I get a little passionate about this particular subject.
LLMs are destroying the “small time author” ebook world, too. Unfortunately. Now the bar is typing prompts into ChatGPT for story paragraphs, and you can publish that junk on Amazon en masse.
Also…
LLMs can be a useful ufor coders who know what they’re doing, and use is strictly as a utility.
And for my personal writing, using local LLMs as a glorified thesaurus, hacking them into completion syntax and viewing their raw logprobs, really helps me over some mental stumbling blocks in my personal writing.
It’s mind boggling that text prediction models, which were always supposed to be dumb utilities akin to a calculator or dictionary, have been twisted into what they’re presented as, today. It’s insane.
It’s like everything that can be turned into a grift, becomes a grift, and people are lapping it up.
I totally agree. Unfortunately my country doesn't really have real publishers anymore. They only publish books from politicians, actors or books from other countries. They pretend to make an effort with small competitions but they only publish short stories and generally you can trace the winners to famous people anyway...
If you try to publish there will only be fake publishers that want your money. Literature is basically dead. I'm not a disillusioned writer by the way, but I know one (i can'twrite shit so I know how hard it is to actually write a book). It's so sad.
At least developing is not going away because companies will always need some software and sw created via vibe coding sucks so hard it makes me laugh when people think it's somewhat usable.