I write code.

Mostly for myself, sometimes for free , sometimes for sale.

I’ve been doing this for 40+ years.

I’m not a professional programmer because I’ve never held a programming job.

Vibe coding is a hot topic right now because some people have figured out that AI can write code.

Yes, it can, but it’s about as good as a junior programmer.

If all you want to do is write little, simple plugins, or build websites fast, even little desktop apps, it works well enough.

But, if you want to write what I’m dong at the moment, you’d better understand what the code says.

You’ll need to hold the AIs hand because it’ll make stuff up, yes, even in your code, break working code because it ‘forgot’ what variable name it had used 20 times before.

It’ll rewrite an entire 500 line block of code in 300 lines by leaving out critical stuff.

Vibe coding is great fun when you play around with it, but not so much fun when you have to fix something.

The conversational prompts sometimes need to be extensive to make sure nothing else gets broken.

If you don’t understand the code you can’t do that.

On the bright side, you can learn to code by vibe coding.

Just ask the AI to explain the code as it goes.

Instruct it to put comments in the code like real programmers do because we don’t remember why we did some things.

OK, I’ve got to give you this vibe coded AI game to play with, https://blog.wm-tips.com/lasermaze, just don’t spend too long on it.

Regards,
Brent.