Post #4894089 · Elektrine

2026-09-29 10:24 UTC

from what I’ve heard from my software engineer friends, a decent coder with standard knowledge of CS and the language they’re using will always write better (more optimized, more debuggable, etc.) code than currently available LLMs even if the “fraction” is closer to 1 than 0, the heavy lifting here is done by “look what they need.” vibe coders need gigantic climate destroying machines to write code that isn’t as good as what an educated programmer writes running on a burrito and coffee

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@aqua_cat@pawb.social 2026-09-29 10:44

Unfortunately we live in day and age when corporations prioritize quantity over quality.

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@BooBees@fedinsfw.app 2026-09-29 11:36

I’m tempted to try to calculate how much energy has been used to produce the currently and previously available library of anime popular amongst coders, because that’s a necessary resource, along with various energy drinks and snackies

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@makeshift0546@lemmy.today 2026-09-29 12:04

Depends on your domain. Devops is mostly a solved problem terraform is well documented and most infra follows a far more simple pattern. It’s not replacing engineers but if you aren’t a moron it can be a 5x type tool. It is extremely good diagnosing issues, parsing logs, and frankly writing well formed TF. It’s garbage at architecture and every once in a while it’ll absolutely send you a wtf were you thinking type pr. But it’s 80% good with a 20x in raw velocity. Our team has fixed up a lot of shitty technical debt, increased automation and our deterministic scripts and workflows, and increased usable test coverage on $30/mo copilot plans.

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