Paul Ford: What Is Code? | Bloomberg

1) "Vibe coding" is not engineering.Think of it as vibe wrangling - you continuously prompt the AI until it throws together a prototype that is functional looking. But under the hood? The AI has made a lot of silent decisions for you. When you want to take that prototype to production, it needs real engineering: someone who understands the implicat... See more

Despite graduating with a degree in computer science, I was sorely lacking in the wisdom that I would eventually acquire, through experience, during my career as a programmer. And it’s not just me: essentially all programmers working today were self-taught. The people who designed the Internet were self-taught, those who architected Windows were se

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And that’s for comparatively structured questions, like “What is the optimal way to convert input X into output Y?” It’s even harder for uncertain jobs, like “What should input Y be?” Was the team that designed the “like” button more productive than the team that produced Slack’s “emoji react” feature? We can argue indefinitely. Maybe the “like” ti... See more