WTF is vibe coding and who cares

Vibe Coding?

So what the hell is vibe coding anyway?

So im sitting here today trying to figure out what the hell to do with react, when I see "vibe coding" come up in the YT feed, and apparently all code in 12 months is now going to be produced by AI. Yeah ok.

Apparently it based on some tweet by an AI developer or something. Where you get into the vibe of coding, and now its started a vibe coding thing?

IDK its just a waste of my time really even thinking about this isnt it?

AI Code Tools that might actually be good.

Bolt seems pretty dam good, you can type in what you want and it spits out the code and can even compile and run it somehow. 

I was watching a google thingo about AI and they were talking a bit about the AI agents that can be trained on your whole site data and then can answer questions all about it, so i think that might be good. 

I tried to import a design into bolt from figma and the issue i see here is that in figma, there is no real margin or padding settings for the text elements or alignment, so when added into bolt it kinda did a working version of the frame, and in about 5 minutes after one failed attempt it seemed to produce something that looked slightly similar to the design, but could not really figure out the center aligned items and was missing a lot of the image elements. 

Sure it could be quite good for an initial frame, but to make it actually usable could be a bit more work, also when. you code the frame yourself you actually know where everything is located and how you style it all, so going into some ai generated code and making changes could be a pain in the ass really. 

AI IDE

Cursor Windsurf, what is an AI IDE? I guess a development environment thats run by the AI superpowers?

So these just have a chatbot sitting there looking at everything you do, i like to just code and run it and then if it crashes i have a look at the error and go, oh yeah i forgot to add a ; or close a " or something. I must be old school...

If the coding environment does everything for you, then why are you even there in the first place. 

I kinda find it the same when running a vite react app, you get it to install 85 dependencies before you can even code anything. remember just adding an index.html and bootstrap or some basic styles and your done?

What the LLM's seem to be doing quite well it taking all of the issues that have already been solved and then making it sound like it came up with it in the first place, rather than actually solving new problems.