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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I threw together a slop project to test something. It put in some JSON for something that didn't use that. I told it it was just some plain text. It took the JSON library out again. Then I added in something that does use JSON and it tried to make a basic JSON parsing library from scratch.

It's like a very junior programmer at times, with amnesia.

It does make some menial tasks simpler, but if people think it will actually replace us then they're in for a shock.

[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It does make some menial tasks simpler, but if people think it will actually replace us then they're in for a shock.

That's the sales pitch, we're in a job market drought right now. Give it a year or two and all the slop will begin breaking, making a new job market boom for developers

[–] EowynCarter@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

But honestly I don't want to spend my time fixing vibe coded stuff.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 14 hours ago

Would be kinda cool if we could get People Who Know What They're Doing(TM) to just...rebuild stuff from the ground up, untainted by slop. Haha a guy can dream.