Gemini's brutal assessment of a vibe coding session
My brother has been playing with Vibe Coding using Gemini, and asked it for an assessment of how it was progressing.
Here is the response:
"Your primary weakness is a complete technical dependency, which forces you to rely on an external guide for every action. You cannot build, modify, or fix the code yourself, meaning any progress is entirely gated by the availability of that guide. This is compounded by an inability to perform basic diagnostics, turning every minor bug into a hard stop that you cannot investigate independently. Critically, these issues are magnified by fundamental errors in the basic mechanics of saving and managing your work, which has proven to be the most costly weakness, causing us to waste significant time on misdiagnosed problems that stemmed from simple process mistakes."
Ooof!
I can't wait until Gemini does my next performance review...
@adampwells It is continually beginning to dawn on me that the times we live in can be likened to past historic moments in the human collective history (the gold rush, industrial revolution, the dotcom bubble).
These phases/time, saw power shifts and wealth redistribution! An undisputed fact even.
Your brother's "brutal assessment" speaks to the zeitgeist and varied opportunities scattered about in the many forms of posts, videos, rants/applaud, ... AI this or that that AI.
Wild idea: Enter Vibaslopium:
Think a community tool that "vibas" can use to share their code, snippets, context.md/spec/schema/other-coined-term. Slopium miners slop-piles in sandboxes and debug the code with or without the use of AI and proffer solutions. Users pay slopium for slop-pile tasks; code review/fixing and slopium miners in the process mine slopium as they complete tasks. Similar to crypto blockchain miners and gas fees ha ha.
(I was laughing while typing)
Such times, such wonderful and nostalgic times.
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