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Re:Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning by wiseowise on Monday December 08, 2025 @12:02AM (#46188566)
> They are statistical token (text) document generators. That's it.

I don’t know why people post this as some kind of slam dunk.

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Re:Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning by urban_alien on Monday December 08, 2025 @01:07AM (#46188930)
Not a slam dunk, just a factual statement
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Re:Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning by latentsea on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:35AM (#46189472)
At the end of the day, it's true? There are times where that suffices, and times where it doesn't.
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Re:Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning by wiseowise on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:17AM (#46190140)
It might be true, but it is extremely reductive and used pejoratively.

> That’s not a book, that’s just a soup of letters! That’s not an art, that’s just paint on a sheet! That’s not an instrument, that’s just a bunch of crap glued together!

If you’re edgy cynic and treat anything this way, that’s fine. But if you’re singling out LLMs just because you don’t like them, then you’re a hypocrite.

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Re:Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning by brazukadev on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:15AM (#46193155)
If you think calling a calculator a calculator is offensive to the point of calling someone a cynic and hypocrite you might be a bit too invested
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