Can anyone show an example of an intelligent non-coder - a lawyer or doctor or accountant or such - actually using vibe coding to make anything non-trivial?
I can absolutely see utility in an AI helping an experienced programmer with boilerplate and revisions and a lot of the busywork of coding. The leap I'm not seeing is any real utility for non-coders. For the most part, they seem to lack the vocabulary to communicate with the LLM about coding tasks. But maybe I'm wrong.
I suspect this is more projection - if I can vibe code and get something useful out of it, anyone can! But I'm ignoring I spent literally decades immersed in the art and practice of writing code - I know the languages and libraries and capabilities, and most importantly perhaps the vocabulary. And your average joe plumber is fine and smart and technical, but this isn't their wheelhouse.
Tom Bortels
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