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Re:The cult of vibe coding is insane by makerofthings on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:58PM (#47665258)
I totally see what you're saying, but to me this feels different. Compilation is a fairly mechanical and well understood process. The large language models aren't just compiling English to assembler via your chosen language, they try and guess what you want, they add extra bits you didn't ask for, they're doing some of your solution thinking for you. That feels like more than just abstraction to me.
Re:The cult of vibe coding is insane by seanosaur on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:04PM (#47665333)
I think it's still abstraction by definition, but you're right in that it's a much larger single leap than in the past.
Re:The cult of vibe coding is insane by kaoD on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:08PM (#47665401)
> it's still abstraction by definition

I dislike arguing semantics but I bet it's not an abstraction by most engineers' definition of the word.

Re:The cult of vibe coding is insane by acedTrex on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:59PM (#47666157)
If this is true then a PMs jira tickets are an abstraction over an engineers code. It's not necessarily wrong by some interpretations but is not how the majority of engineers would define the word.