Occasionally my loud and near violent commentary on my hatred of programming will prompt someone in a back office client’s crew to ask me if want their help vibe coding a solution
Explain my thoughts on the matter.
Is AI a useful tool for programming?
I am honestly not professionally qualified to say.
I left the "I am the designer/business connection person with a programmer on the crew" a long time ago, and the "I am myself your web dev" even longer ago.
Why do I feel qualified to have this opinion then?
A lot of the bricks I am using to build the art studio were fired in the kiln of clients whom, themselves or previous crews, would just grab plugins and shared libraries to do basic web functions to things.
To be clear.
To be explicit.
Plugins and shared libraries are an objective massive benefit to the digital ecosystem. It cannot be overstated how much functionality can be brought STAGGERINGLY cheaply -- and often for free.
Things that would normally take hundreds, thousands, more, far more sometimes, of human programming hours packaged up and sold to you for maybe $100.
It's great and I love(d) it.
Things break for reasons you can't figure out.
Things have conflicts you could not have anticipated because technology changes, your business changes, your staff changes, your customer base changes, your suppliers change, your--
Your hardware changes (or more likely, the box that you are mostly invisibly renting via a host changes).
Just. Something weird. Happens.
Something malicious happens to your site.
Your whatever-bot stops being supported by the the literal one person on the planet whom built it and supports it because they got tired of it, bored of it, and/or died.
This is -- and I am being completely serious -- one of the most accurate-to-real-life comics you will ever see.
To be clear and fair and honest.
When your whatever plugin breaks, stops being supported, conflicts -- whatever -- you can almost always pay some weird fucker with inexpertly applied makeup and a cute haircut, a programmer whom you'll never meet that lives in the middle of the desert, and a producer whom will ensure your project runs on time, on schedule --
"Is AI a useful tool for programming?"
How much time, energy, and other resourcess do you want to spend making sure your vibe coded bot...
Does what you think it will do.
Does not do anything you do not want it to do.
Does not create a pathway for someone else to come in and do things they want to do that you don't want them to do... that you eventually catch.
...that you never catch because they are better at this than you and/or are more resourced than you.
I am impatient to get Netherworld Post to full strength.
I am frustrated that building a relatively simple company is taking a large pile of years versus just saying "ahh hell I'll just whip up a whatever!"
I can process these feelings.
I would rather put in this work and have something purpose-built that will run idly in the background with regular but acceptable levels of maintenance so I can focus on figuring out the lines of eroticism I am comfortable with writing and drawing my monsters with.
While focusing on the daily adventures of a goblin grocery store.
While focusing on the haunted diner.
The mermaid eating at every pavillion on the boardwalk with her sea witch girlfriend.
The vampire sneaking up and pouncing on her unsuspecting wife.
this has been a reaction to a few days ago "Hey I can show you how to prompt!"
and at some point in the acceptable timeline-of-future
that is all i will be doing
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