[yoda97]

I have already vibe-coded countless number of scripts and two side projects that were on my "list" for years, these projects would have never seen the light of day if not for Cursor. That's the whole point.

[hajile]

The fact that they could be "vibe coded" means that they (or something similar) probably already existed, but you just didn't know they did.

[IshKebab]

No, there's a very very long tail of tasks that are too niche for a proper tool to exist for but it would be annoying effort to figure out yourself.

My most recent example of this: write a script to delete all git branches that point to HEAD.

Go ahead see how long it takes you to figure out the command for that, because it took me under 60 seconds with AI.

[dingnuts]

IDK, there are a lot of little chores that I find needing done that previously would have been ten minutes of research and cli fiddling that are a prompt and copy paste now.

It doesn't feel that different but it is a little faster

[davely]

But the amount of time saved because one could vibe code it rather than search through Google’s terrible results is immense and a benefit in and of itself.

[unchar1]

Parts of it could probably already exists in the LLM's corpus, but being able to join them together to build new things is what makes "vibe coding" so useful.

Even though, from personal experience, at scale it still falls apart

[cma]

I think it is somewhat similar to the emergent translation capabilities, it doesn't need to have trained on a translation of a text to do one of it. But it does need good coverage of the area.

[AstroBen]

What the end product is depends on the specific parts chosen and the way they're put together

Just because the parts are available doesn't mean every possible combination of them has already been made

[yoda97]

Not if you know the field really well, I talk to my users.

[skydhash]

Is it. For small scripts like these you can get far with basic search and sources like docs/github/SO. Maybe cursor is more “fun”, “engaging”, and the like, but it’s not like it was a difficult job before.

[hnuser123456]

If you could throw your endless todo list of side projects at an LLM, and can see at least some of them implemented overnight effortlessly, why not? You can still take credit because you had the idea in the first place and went through the effort to write it down and describe it well enough to be achievable. It's definitely more fun especially if you have limited hobby coding time.

[ketzo]

Biking isn’t difficult, but you’ll still travel more with a car.

[winrid]

It is, takes much less energy.