• whereitsat@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    imagine doing web development for a living and calling yourself a ‘coder.’

    you’re writing instructions for a web browser, not a computer, pal. you fear the computer and it’s language the same way you fear a black man from the islands when you venture through a bad neighborhood.

    there isn’t even a proper analogy for vibe coding because it’s so lame. imagine showing up to a jazz club and wanting to sit with a band but all you brought was your laptop with suno but everyone else is playing a real instrument.

    are you a musician?

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
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      22 hours ago

      TBF most of it is JavaScript which is actually code, but they shouldn’t be called coders for another reason.

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      21 hours ago

      What is web development if not coding? You write specially formatted text in a file with a particular extension and another program that knows how to read it makes the computer do things.