unclebucknasty

The cynical part of me still sees "vibe coding" as a marketing term, invented to paper over problems with insufficient AI-coding tools.

Still, it seems that some people who couldn't code previously, can now do...something.

But, for experienced developers who have tried vibe coding, does it actually slow you down? And does it negatively impact the quality of your code?

I'm trying to figure out whether vibe coding in its current state is really a net-positive versus good engineers. And, I'm not even certain whether it's marketed as such.

I've frequented HN off-and-on for over a decade now, with some fairly long stretches of inactivity interspersed.

In the last couple of years in particular, I'm pretty sure I noticed a hard-shift in the kinds of posts that were being up/downvoted, comments being made, etc. This was very similar to bot activity on other platforms, and it represented a significant pull to the right. I'm not trying to be political here, but there's no way to be clear without stating it.

But, recently, it's as if all of that relented and HN has kind of "normalized" again. For instance, I'm seeing more posts that are critical of DOGE or Musk that would have been downvoted. Now it's the opposite.

I don't know if this is attributable to the discovery of bot farms that were eliminated by HN mods or something else, but it does not seem organic.

Has anyone else noticed this?