There are 2 schools of people on Twitter on using AI in programming. One states emphatically that they are producing fully-realized projects through nothing but “vibe coding,” and the other states, well, what DHH says here.
John Carmack had this summary, and he should know.
This put into words my feeling that LLM’s are just another tool — an advanced tool, to be sure — but “just” another tool, like source code managers, diff-er’s, IDE’s, debuggers, and linters. In fact, writing code is the least interesting or important part of creating software to do something non-trivial and useful. It’s the understanding and translating that need into an application that’s the magical part, and it’s my contention that LLM’s will never be able to fill that role. If you can also make the program work well and be fast and look nice, that’s the fun part. Maybe a future version of AI built on a different technology will be able to do these things, but not this version.
