" the most aggressive use of vibe coding among the startups they have funded was seen when the founders were so young that they had never been exposed to traditional computer science education"
In other words, they don't know what they're doing. :-)
Which by the way was always Microsoft's problem, which is why their stuff sucks. :-)
So now we're extending that to everything with a computer or a network? What could possibly go wrong?
I studied programming during the 70s and 80s, when things like "structured programming" and "structured design" were the buzzwords in software development. I was always wary of the term "agile" - and so were other people.
Likewise, I remember reading your rants on the failures of Website design, so when I say your name on this article, I knew I had to read it.
I don't oppose this sort of thing for personal use, and one-off projects, but you have to know that people are going to abuse this stuff for commercial, and even critical, projects that will generate an industry of software "engineers" (I hate that term since few of them are) who will get rich fixing the failures.
Perhaps this is just sour grapes. I remember when I started, I did a lot of jobs that involved my coming in to clean up a project that the previous developers had screwed up royally, and then their bosses ran out of money to pay me to fix it and had to lay me off.
So close... I thought you were on the right track but you're still missing what is coming. Vibed products won't create demand for more designers or UX talents, it will mostly eliminate them.
The article's vision is tantamount to optimising the keyboard for a typewriter, making a mechanical typewriter electric, teaching women how to increase their WPM & be better at shorthand, so that one day we'll all have someone to create documents for us. NO! We use a word-processor to create our own documents. Sure there are templates we can use to assist but we don't train or use humans by the dozens to do this work.
A similar scenario will hold true in digital products. We'll us our personal AIs to create the UI, if one is needed at all. In fact, we'll use our personal AI to build the entire bloody solution, but is for another time.
" the most aggressive use of vibe coding among the startups they have funded was seen when the founders were so young that they had never been exposed to traditional computer science education"
In other words, they don't know what they're doing. :-)
Which by the way was always Microsoft's problem, which is why their stuff sucks. :-)
So now we're extending that to everything with a computer or a network? What could possibly go wrong?
I studied programming during the 70s and 80s, when things like "structured programming" and "structured design" were the buzzwords in software development. I was always wary of the term "agile" - and so were other people.
Likewise, I remember reading your rants on the failures of Website design, so when I say your name on this article, I knew I had to read it.
I don't oppose this sort of thing for personal use, and one-off projects, but you have to know that people are going to abuse this stuff for commercial, and even critical, projects that will generate an industry of software "engineers" (I hate that term since few of them are) who will get rich fixing the failures.
Perhaps this is just sour grapes. I remember when I started, I did a lot of jobs that involved my coming in to clean up a project that the previous developers had screwed up royally, and then their bosses ran out of money to pay me to fix it and had to lay me off.
So close... I thought you were on the right track but you're still missing what is coming. Vibed products won't create demand for more designers or UX talents, it will mostly eliminate them.
The article's vision is tantamount to optimising the keyboard for a typewriter, making a mechanical typewriter electric, teaching women how to increase their WPM & be better at shorthand, so that one day we'll all have someone to create documents for us. NO! We use a word-processor to create our own documents. Sure there are templates we can use to assist but we don't train or use humans by the dozens to do this work.
A similar scenario will hold true in digital products. We'll us our personal AIs to create the UI, if one is needed at all. In fact, we'll use our personal AI to build the entire bloody solution, but is for another time.