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@BCsven@lemmy.ca
2026-09-09 05:01 UTC
There’s a fine line maybe.
If you go to a shitty rated restaurant and ask to prepare a steak that meets certain procedures and requirements, and they bring it to you to test it, and you send back with corrections, repeatedly till it resembles a quality cooked meal… then you are somewhat a chef.
It’s an old debate, like when the camera was invented (while artists were painting landscaoes in the field) and could make perfect landscape pictures…is the photographer an artist?
It’s a tool.
If you just pump out slop and don’t curate anything then its just garbage slop; because its still slop automata at this stage.
I went through this this weekend. I have a bash script I wrote years ago to unlock my WD backup drive in Linux. I’m not a programmer, I just know the process and searched forums and stackexchange till I could cobble together a script that would do a few simple things.
check if a WD drive is connected
ask if you are setting a new password or using old one
branch to cooking a password file or branch to unlocking the drive
send command to drive with encryoted password binary.
report back success or errors
So, did I make that script or did stackexchange?
Then this weeknd I wanted a GUI for it…but I know way less about GUI programming, so I fed my script into an LLM and asked for a GTK interface. It took my code and rewrote it for a dialog interface.
It took six attempts to get it working with me guiding it.
It added a few features on its own that I hadn’t thought of, and were actually good choices.
is password.bin the proper format/character byte length check
file browser if you wanted to pick the password out of a state directory, or send it direct
I feel I made more of the bash script than the GUI program. But both were done by using tools and tweaks
Replies (3)
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Does going to Subway make me a chef?
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What you did with your script is assemble smaller scripts you didn’t do together. The composition is what you actually made
With AI, you do vet on the composition. You say yes to adding code.
To take the other commenter’s analogy, before you asked for the raw ingredients at subway to make your sandwich, now you let the cashier do it. It may be the same way as you would have, but it’s not you that made any of it. You made the concept, not the physical result
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Yep. There’s a spectrum of how involved people are when they vibecode.
I think the biggest difference I’ve seen is in whether someone still understands how it works and chose that architecture for a reason. A lot of coworkers I’ve had that vibecode don’t understand their own code, and you can tell that’s what’s hurting them the most when it comes to performance and bugs. They don’t know the performance is way worse than it should be, and don’t understand how to even find and fix bugs, or that it has them.
They might have asked for the right features early on but it quickly becomes unmaintainable if they don’t choose architecture with purpose and read the code they didn’t write.
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