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Vibe coding works when you need to say connect to some API and can feed the model a bunch of docs.

It’s great for very low skill, low maintenance, low risk code that I can easily and reliably regenerate.

Increasingly coding models are improving at architecture choices, Claude 4.5 vs 4 is way better here. But ultimately it’s inferior to a ginger making those choices.

It’s also a great debugger and reviewer.

I used it this weekend to connect to an API and to build a table of constants by just feeding it docs. That was a huge time saver.

I also used it to try and implement stuff and I gotta say once it hit tricky things it started trying to game it and just say it works.

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glowie@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
GINGERS DO HAVE SOULS

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- BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  We don’t
  
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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
thats totally the type of code I have written. granted I really consider it more configuration even if it is code. This is always a thing with jobs. Yes I have written code but no im not really a coder by my definition (writes code over 50% of time at positions). No you don’t really need a coder for this ops role but yeas its fine that it uses continous development and a bit of code needs to be changed and you call it all devops.

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’m a dev and work with some devOPs, and you nailed my experience with them exactly! Here are some projects I’ve seen them build:
  
  open web ui (self-hosted AI) with some custom logic to verify an API key; it’s only available on the VPN/LAN, but IT has rules; basically ended up being a bit of lua in nginx
  
  some JS and Python to add some widgets to the app (stuff like reporting issues)
  
  random lambdas and other scripts to check server health
  
  I remember doing all that stuff when I worked at a startup, and it’s nice to just see things get automated.
  
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  - HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Like half my last role was pretty much automation. Which is sorta good and I guess maybe why devops is a better way to look at it. Back when it was just ops it seemed like they would never give time to get things like automation done.
    
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