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105 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 6 Aug \ parent \ on: The AI era is breaking the glass ceiling for solo founders?! AI
How long do you think the slop will be around for? Like, will the next gen produce perfectly executed code without getting lost or being overly complex?
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132 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 6 Aug
It'll be around forever, because slop isn't a function of quality, it's a function of scarcity/abundance.
In the hands of a somewhat creative but skilled developer, you can create really good code with "dated" models from perhaps even 2 generations back (i.e. from December last year)
In the hands of a no-coder, you have 99.99% chance to get slop now, to get slop next year and in 200 years from now, you will likely get slop. Maybe 1:10000 will get lucky? That's the gain here, because bottom line a bad idea is a bad idea is a bad idea.
The bar for non-slop rises symmetrically to the common output of available tools1

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  1. Can we name this the law of optimism? please? please? please? <please sir emoji> ↩
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105 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 6 Aug
So vibe coding isn't really about getting normal people to build stuff. You still need to know a few things about coding or architecture to have a chance at making a successful product?
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 6 Aug
Yes. Everything else is boilerplating, and that's an anti-pattern on its own.
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