A week ago I'd have called you a dumbass fagshit for suggesting AI was at the point you could just float vaguely above it like some kind of Commodore and instruct it, in a roundabout fashion, to produce tangible code and outputs.
Yet here we are. In the last couple days I've used nothing but vibes to:
- Build a full control plane for my janky home security system (complete with interfacing via ancient network interfaces) as a portable .exe that can power shit on/off, change inputs, pull status etc.
- Clone the whole vague concept over to my neighbor's completely different brand setup in like ten minutes. It just werkd (tm).
- Review, ingest, and port a codebase that only ever compiled on Windows across to Linux, including updating all the relevant documentation in a manner that was immediately understandable to a dumbass like me that actively doesn't want to get 'too deep'.
- Push all of this up to online source control as if I'm some kind of code wizard. Which I am, objectively, not.
This is all pretty cool. Anyone else here vibing with this shit? You can get actual things done, even if you're not autistic enough (or the wrong kind of autistic) to touch the code yourself.
Through all of this I have not touched a single line of code. I am capable of it if needed, I just didn't need to. That's mind blowing, at least to me.
If you're not sure where to get started, absolute basic options are:
- Take your code, pseudocode or just the idea about some code that you have, and paste it into Copilot or Grok. Give it some basic prompting and it'll shit out usable code, even in it's free form. If you don't want to figure out compilers and such, pick a script language (Powershell, bash) that you can just paste and run.
- Cursor - Download the app, it has a free tier. It's VSCode IDE with an agent wired into it. You can ask it the dumbest shit and it'll often manage to turn it into something usable.
Any other kiwis doing this right now? What are you vibe coding today?
My first coding 'experience' was plugging lines of BASIC from a magazine into a spectrum zx in the late 80s somewhere in deepest darkest Engahlund.
Vibe coding is telling an AI to write code and perform ancillary tasks for you by describing them in normal human prose.
If you want to give it a go, search 'Cursor AI' and download the desktop application. Then tell it something completely retarded like 'Write me a simple power-shell app that produces meaningless insults'.
It'll do it, and it's entirely your fault that it did. Scale up from there to insult as many portions of the populace as you like programmatically.
You can then give it increasingly unhinged instructions like 'publish this grave mistake on github' and the mad lad will just go ahead and do that like it's not a bad idea.
Back in the day, me and 2 of my buddies made a shitty game on the Commodore 64.
I didn't really write the code but I did create all the character models because I'm an autist... I mean an artist... I mean both.
Those were the days, I think I still have that game on an audio cassette in my basement unless mold got to it.
Now in 2026, shit like Unity has an AI thing so, if you ever wanted to vibecode a video game, now you can.
I feel the same way about vibecoding that I do about AI generated art. They're not Satan. They're just another way of doing things. Some people use it as a platform to start somewhere while others go all in on it. I personally think it's best to find a middle ground if you're not a wizard in either category and want to improve your own skills.
On the other side of the coin, I have a friend that's an engineer, and he does insane things with code. He's not going to lose his job because he's able to write firmware updates for something that lost its original maintainer in a field where it's absolutely critical these updates don't break anything.
AI is a tool, in the right hands it can do great things. If you don't know how to use the tool, i.e. you don't understand what you have it doing for you, you're never going to understand how to get it to work the way you want. Hence the term "vibe", you only feel like you know what you're doing.
Your code will be full of bugs and security flaws and you'll get rekt by anyone with a real working knowledge of the language you've asked the AI to use to create your project. Take the time to LEARN as you go and do not rely solely on the AI to do the work or you'll regret it.
There's this one autist on /g/ who's obsessed with vibecoding, he refers to all his enemies as "snailcats" for not keeping up with the times.
You look like this if you program without Al.
There's this one autist on /g/ who's obsessed with vibecoding, he refers to all his enemies as "snailcats" for not keeping up with the times. View attachment 8940452
You look like this if you program without Al.
/g/ is unuseable because of spiritually Indian people like the fag you mention, the namefags and various other vibejeets. Lil tip: if the thread starts with a frog, snail cat or macfag adjacent image, or contains the word "luddite" in the OP, it is made by and for Indians.
Question for you gents:
I can interpret html, that's pretty much it. I'd love to learn AI vibecoding for some personal projects, not to larp as a pro like an indian and try to get jobs. Where's a good starting point for self education? How much do I need before I can hop in?
there's no such thing as vibe coding. karpathy is too much of a coward to say he made a mistake letting it catch on. that in reality it should have been called hybrid programming.
in this regard karpathy is no different than trump or putin.
if my understanding that he popularized it, that it originated from him and he provided no resistance when it sounded stupid.
that's your leadership. these are the same people that won't listen to a junior suggesting the database needs to be changed.
fuck these people.
you want advice? i'll give you the best advice...
take this prompt "pretend 1 is 5. what is 1 + 1? respond with one number", send that to chatgpt, and tell me if the answer is correct or if you think it's a hallucination.
they're coming up with shit without thinking about consequences involved around wrong terminology.
don't listen to anyone, do your own research. hit the api. feel how it responds depending on context.
make sure to experiment soon. gpt 5.5 is $30/mil, while 4.1 is only $8 and is acceptable. to the moon we're about to go.
Question for you gents:
I can interpret html, that's pretty much it. I'd love to learn AI vibecoding for some personal projects, not to larp as a pro like an indian and try to get jobs. Where's a good starting point for self education? How much do I need before I can hop in?
The learning curve is figuring out the flaws and quirks with LLM interaction and then taking care not to engage in risky behavior (e.g. putting un-vetted and potentially insecure code live on the internet, or fully trusting an agent to directly mess with your system without approval). You really can just hop straight in with some little projects by putting in the chat box 'write me a simple script that emulates a magic 8 ball'. Or whatever. Then scale your requests upwards from there to build more complex things.
Using AI to make entire projects has always came off very jeety to me. The only thing that I'd use AI for is boilerplate stuff. I just really enjoy programming.
There's this one autist on /g/ who's obsessed with vibecoding, he refers to all his enemies as "snailcats" for not keeping up with the times. View attachment 8940452
You look like this if you program without Al.
Question for you gents:
I can interpret html, that's pretty much it. I'd love to learn AI vibecoding for some personal projects, not to larp as a pro like an indian and try to get jobs. Where's a good starting point for self education? How much do I need before I can hop in?
Set up a cheap VPS somewhere, and jump right into using Claude Code or OpenAI Codex in an empty Git repo over a plain SSH connection. Bypass all the stupid apps and IDE's and SaaS platforms. If you can use this shit in a terminal you'll be able to do anything you want with it, and not get trapped with vendor lock-in. (Protip: Use Byobu to keep your session alive through connection hiccups.)
Just don't do it on your local machine if you can help it. Do it in a jailed server environment, or at the very least a VM.
buddy, with where the prices are going you won't be using it. prepare to spend tens of thousands.
soon, one API request will cost you $30 and you'll think harder before using AI. those with good brains will obliterate everyone.
if you've not used ai in the last 5 years, you're already 5 years behind.
i can execute API requests more deliberately because i know how it responds. i know the limits.
claude, cursor, they can't compete against someone composing their own context.
what people spend $100 now and they say it spent it in five minutes, that $100 will be $10000 in the future.
you're all getting addicted. many of you won't code without assistance because you can get further when they turn it back on, when there's an outage.
they made something that makes you stupid. like oil they pump out of the ground.
i can put 30% effort and get so far ahead you trying only 10% having ai do the rest will never catch me in my lifetime.
as i look at the token usage if i had to pay latest model prices now and where it'll go in the future, nope, i could not have done what i have done.
we need completely new IDEs built from ground up and made for hybrid programming.
if you're not using it now tomorrow it will be more expensive.
we're going directly up.
so many tokens, f.
there's a whole technique people don't understand. most of you know less than 10% of how to use it the way i do. even people close to me who i know are smart are sucking at it, when prices go up they'll be fucked. brain always wins, it's still too efficient. there's lots of information lost. they need to increase input by at least 10x, or even more stupid number for audio/video input. fuck, can you imagine that, if you could a/v input what you want and it responds with a video explaining what it's doing, f. and then it understands when to not complete the task right away but instead ask you a question. f. you'd be like "wow, i forgot i was missing that information, thank you language model for reminding me about that". and now the response is better and you realize you would have made a mistake if it didn't ask you that question. every response is like the end of the conversation and you need to get it to work in small steps.
i can just not tell people how to use it and ill be the last one standing in the end.
