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 Time and patience and concentration. I think my main issue is, there is just so much. Like, I used to write audio games in NVGT before starting to vibe code and there was one way of doing things. In whatever other lang, I can choose, but then this is not compatible with that and this requires that... I think this is only a mental issue though. I do an apprenticeship as a software dev in germany and I'm surprised how we learn coding. We just like, learn the patterns and stuff, and of course also do actual projects, but I don't think I'll go out of this apprenticeship and say, right, I'm now capable of properly developing a C# app for example. I think the concepts themself are not the problem, it's actually doing the stuff in the way the language I choose does it. And it just rewards you so much faster, what I've done in a week with Claude (which works perfectly fine for me and solved my problem) would've otherwise required me to learn tons of swift and IOS stuff which, I just don't have the time and brain for atm.
Replying to @jonathan859@someplace.social
@jonathan859 @matt Honestly, I kinda fear the day the big companies decide to cut the subscription-based models entirely. They already know they're financially absolutely not worth it, API brings them so much more money. I believe they'll either cut down on the usage plans more and more or just remove subscription-based models entirely, at which point individuals like us will be back at ground zero anyway.
Replying to @ToniBarth@troet.cafe
@jonathan859 @matt I don't fear it as in, oh no, don't take it away from me, but as in, so many people already depend on it now and are happy with it, and they'll get stripped from their favourite toy and feel the lack of ability and knowledge to start something new or even maintain the stuff they already created. Sounds like something you don't want to experience in general. And I believe it'll happen at a pretty big scale.