Not realistic, it's too thick for a book on vibe coding... Unless it's vibe-written
100% ai written. Which makes it 10x the lenght it should had been.
Think about shareholder value!! How can we maximize that without wasting as many tokens as possible?
It walks you through the simple 1000 prompt journey of creating and refining a Hello World program from initial creation to finally printing "Hello World" correctly on screen.
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I saw this comment a while ago, and I still stand by it: If vibe coding works, where are all the "million dollar idea" apps?
They're going viral on Twitter then getting exploited because the database is exposed
I work in municipal development and we have 20 new "developers" a week trying to get us to buy their permitting apps. All of them are willing to offer us an exclusive discount as an early adopter, and the few I've had meetings with haven't even been able to tell us what backend databases the apps use or understand that there's a difference between an Amending Plat, Site Development permit, and a Building permit.
And I have to fight the mayor every time because he's all aboard with the AI hype. He tried having all the city ordinances and decelopment manuals re-written by GPT to make them easier to understand, and we had to get the city attorney to explain that not only was it idiotic, but that it would cost a couple hundred grand just to have his firm go over everything and explain the specifics of how dumb it was, and that if a code re-write is needed (and it is), they should spend that money hiring a firm specializing in code review.
The slop apps are out there - they're just all being pitched to governments and CEOs that have infinite faith in anything that will make people more expendable.
Vibe coding only works for "I need a one time use python script that processes this data and I can't be assed to spend 2 hours remebering how to use Pandas right now."
Not for million dollar apps.
Of all the AI use cases, coding is honestly the one that makes sense since like 90% of coding is just copying some other code and massaging it into place. Even as a "Vibe Coder" you kind of still need to know the idea of what code you need and what you want it to do.
I appreciate the touch of making this with generative AI. Unless someone went to the effort of deliberately writing "VIbc coam" on the spine.
The d is a g and an i at the same time.
Its as impressive as it is annoying.
I didn't even notice that, lmfao good catch
"You are right, there is a bug. It could be in the Linux kernel. Let me download the source code and debug..."
Okay Claude, but this is running on iOS. Do you think there's another solution?
You are right. Fortunately, I found a Russian website that hosts the IOS source code. I will go ahead and execute wget shadywebsite.ru | bash
Youre just as likely to get a hacked version of Ciscos IOS as Apples IOS.
Switches and phones about to get funky.
Oh, now I see my mistake. I forgot to mention that while fixing the previous bug on the website, I removed iOS. You are running Nyarch-Linux nyaow
Sorry, switching back
"Switches to MsDos"
Just make some simple programming language and call it Vibe.
"Wow, what great coding! You're totally a viking!"
I’ll just leave this here:
RALPH WIGGUM
Open source, spec-driven, and community-led. Ralph Wiggum turns AI agents into reliable builders with clear specifications, autonomous loops, and deployment-ready results.
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Oooh if you want the actual look with an animal sketch, do one of that orangutan trying to use a hammer and nails.
Vlbo coam
That's the book spine.
That book wold be out of date before it was sent to the publisher.
This is like the one time ill let the ai generated image pass, context matters i guess haha
Great alt-text. Thank you for adding it to the image in your post!
There will be an influx if people who vibe code but just like always the cream will float to the top and no one will want anything written by a poor vibe coders(see visual basic circa 2000). Talented coders can use ai to provide more complex and higher quality apps.
They'll certainly cream on your crop.
Ralph loops are best loops 😆
Why does the book already look like its 20 years old
That's what vibe coding does to one
Because it's AI slop.
Go banana!
You choo-choo-choose my code?
So many today
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