As a person who spent many years in the culinary arts field, I can assure you that most professional bakeries use the same mix you can buy at the store, just shipped in 50 pound bags. The difference is that they use butter instead of oil, heavy cream instead of water, more eggs, and brown sugar instead of white.

Eeeeh. I disagree. Disclosure: I’m a developer.

Can AI write code? Yes. In fact I’ll sometimes give it obtuse code I wrote and ask if there’s a way to simplify it, then use that as a jumping board on where I might want to head.

You know what else it does? Not understand context, or situations it hasn’t been made explicitly aware of.

I’ve given it plenty of things that it spit back just plainly incorrect or fundamentally altered code. Sometimes it’s just ignoring best security practices, sometimes it’s trying to use a string as an int, sometimes it just makes up “standard” functions that don’t actually exist because someone one said “wouldn’t it be nice is int.ThisFunctionName existed and did specific thing?”

Anyone shitting on AI for spitting out code is missing the point. Vibe coding is fine for personal projects that never get released to the world, but the moment you’re trying to build a business on top, or want to release it? Vibe coding is downright dangerous. There have been a number of vibe coded websites that were just sitting open for anyone to look at the personal information, because no one who knew what they were doing was involved.

The reason programmers are complaining is because the LLM stole our code to do so.

decent looking

That's a subjective fucking standard. And the LLMs learned from corporate standards, which are using 6 frameworks and then just adding basic gradients to make it look "fancy".

chasing stray semicolons

It's usually not having enough that's a problem? And then you just look at the error, it says " line 12", and you add the damn semicolon. And if it's not on line 12, add on line 11. And then you get used to fucking adding semicolons.

Try to be helpful

Good luck maintaining that code

"this looks vibe coded" doesn't mean "we don't like your project because it used ai"

it means "your project for fucking sure does not do what you think it does because you are not a skilled developer enough to understand the code that the AI generated for you"

to which the counterargument the slopper would throw is "I wrote tests for requirements and the tests are passing"

how would a slopper know the code generated fits the requirements vs strictly only passes test cases ?

I don’t think we’re “butt hurt”. We just have a different tolerance for what is acceptable.