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ysosiriuson Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a real and exhausting job

How depressing. I sure hope it's not irreversible, but I feel it will be, because the number of novice "vibe coders" out there severely outweighs the number of experienced programmers.

ysosiriuson Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a real and exhausting job

Haven't met a programmer who likes the "vibe coding" terminology. It seems to be only popular among circles with no programming experience.

ysosiriuson Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally

I've always wondered this as well, and never seem to get an answer. Why would someone want to do this when they can get a better result either renting in the cloud, or just using a subscription?

Obviously I see the value in having something local from a control and privacy perspective, but it's surely always a net loss in terms of quality and capability of output, right?

ysosiriuson Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally

How do you find the quality of the output compares to that of, say, o3 or Sonnet 4?