Question for people who vibe-code full apps, especially blind people, as I believe that covers most of my followers who do this: What would it take for you to be comfortable coding directly in a programming language without an LLM? A high-level programming language with better tutorials and quickstart templates than are currently available, particularly for writing real apps? Or do you believe that having an LLM generate the code is the only way you could practically do what you do?
@matt So for me even though I have an engineering background, I enjoy agentic coding because I've always preferred to design vs. actually engineer. I'm burnt out on the actual coding side of things, but I have a lot of ideas I want to make happen. But that's just me so... yeah.
Replying to @lerven@tweesecake.social
@lerven Thanks. I was particularly curious to hear from you, because I know you shipped several games in VB6 and BGT. I'm curious about how you got burnt out on actual coding.
@matt I worked as a software engineer full time for eight years for very little pay. I became kind of soured on the process of coding. Honestly agentic coding has helped me REINVIGORATE my interest in making software again. I appreciate that I can explain what I want, get something out, and then ittirate over it and get something better. it's also giving me exposure to languages I'd otherwise not have access to. I honestly never wanted to code in the first place, but in order to get the games and software I wanted for a long time, I had to be a one man shop. Now I can focus on the things I enjoy which are designing concepts. I hope my ramblings make some sort of sense.
@lerven I bet @matt is going to hear that one a lot from those who have done this as a job.