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 2 days 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 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

yeah imagine that, hiring experts to excise their expertise...

what silly thought pained laughter