Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
    • @golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12•19 days ago

      It’s when people try to have LLM’s generate code and then try to assemble the pieces produced into semi-functional, usually really bad, software I think.

      • @Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
        8•19 days ago

        And I think “vibe” means that they have no experience with programming so they can’t read the code they copy.

    • Rikudou_SageEnglish
      50•19 days ago

      Stupid term for when people who don’t know how to program ask AI to generate code for them which they have no expertise to actually validate.

      Edit: It took 20 minutes, but I finally found the poster child for vibe coding (time well spent):

      A screenshot of someone being all smug about not needing engineers because they have written a SaaS app using AI, then a second screenshot of the same person complaining that their app is under attack and they don't know how to fix it