• squaresinger@lemmy.world
          11 months

          And I got a real job that I will be doing for longer than a week, so the the money has to justify me spending my rare free time.

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
          11 months

          Is that a number you can actually charge? Because if so, there’s some prices I’m gonna have to raise.

          • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
            11 months

            You can charge it, but that doesn’t mean anyone’s gonna pay it. Highly depends on your specific market and skillset.

            At the very least, it’s definitely useful as a “fuck you” price.

          • mkwt@lemmy.world
            11 months

            That number is at the high end of what I usually see for consulting work. The high hourly rate has to cover all of the HR and accounting overhead, invoicing, marketing, business development, and the opportunity cost of short term engagement vs. long term engagements.

  • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
    11 months

    I can read this as either: AI allows anyone to code their own stuff.

    Or

    AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

      • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
        11 months

        They try to vibe code it, eventually get bored and give up. It’s win win (for AI companies and for programmers) in this case.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      11 months

      AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

      At least my million dollar ideas friends wasting AI’s time with the useless crap, instead of ruining a perfectly nice meal conversation with me.

      Of course, I know it is only buying me a few months. The “quick fix to my AI app” requests are gathering on the horizon.

  • Damage@feddit.it
    11 months

    They still ask you why their garbage doesn’t work or how to run a PDF.
    I’m not even a computer programmer, I do industrial automation!

      • Damage@feddit.it
        11 months

        So it’s over, isn’t it? The nitpickers are here to stay

          • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world
            11 months

            You’re getting downvoted because you didn’t get reference.

            It was an Apple ad where some actress from Stranger Things said that after somebody asked her what she was doing on her computer (IPad).

            It wasn’t well received because it was almost a celebration of customer ignorance. But in recent decades that seems to be the case with their marketing.

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
      11 months

      how to run a PDF

      Not that stupid. PDF is scriptable.

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
          11 months

          Just make it executable using chmod +x and call it like you would just anything you want to “run”.
          If it “does not work” then you need to change your CPU by getting another motherboard. That will be $3k

  • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com
    11 months

    I still think no-code tools are better suited for building prototypes without requiring development knowledge in order to prove your idea. LLMs just added a complicated extra-step.

    • Ethan@programming.devEnglish
      11 months

      I think the point is, the kind of people who have “million dollar ideas” are now using LLMs instead of pestering real programmers.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      11 months

      But these aren’t just any apps, these are shitty half-assed apsps generated from a slurry of unrelated mediocre code scraped from the corners of the web.

      I am not looking forward to next year when every new aspect of any service I use online will have an 80% chance to be a half-assed shit slurry.

      Today’s 65% chance was already time consuming and exhausting.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    11 months

    am i wrong or is this a terrible meme format for what it’s trying to say?

    edit: it was the former

      • pyre@lemmy.world
        11 months

        idk the soldier is supposed to be a negation/protection rather than providing/helping with something.

        this seems more appropriate for the mercy meme or something.

        • marcos@lemmy.world
          11 months

          Vibe-coding is absolutely protecting real programmers from the constant bombardment of wannabe entrepreneurs that just need a tech person to write their idea.

          • pyre@lemmy.world
            11 months

            oh shit now it makes sense. i misunderstood what it was trying to say.

        • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          11 months

          I’d argue it is protecting programmers. Previously, people would waste programmers’ time with poorly concepted/uncreative app ideas. But now people are going “oh I can do that on my own”, and wasting their own time with AI vibe coding.

          • squaresinger@lemmy.world
            11 months

            The old “I have this great idea for an app! If you build it for me, you can have 10% of the profits!”.

            And then you ask for the idea, and at first they don’t want to give it away with your agreement, and in the end it turns out to be either whatsapp of amazon.

    • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
      11 months

      I was initially confused as well, but I do think the meme format matches.