No.
Of course that’s just my opinion, but there were some very enthusiastic people on this ad-hoc ALT webinar who believe it will take over everything, and finally kill the VLE! But I saw nothing here and heard no arguments on this session that convinced me. That doesn’t mean that vibe coding platforms like Lovable and Antigravity aren’t going to become useful additions to our toolbox, but I’ve been through more than one technology hype cycle that was going to revolutionise education and put us all out of jobs only for them to underwhelm.
Broadly speaking there were two camps of speakers here, the evangelists who seem to be blind to problems and criticism, and washed it all away with promises of future improvements, and the more wary. From this latter camp we got stories of someone with no coding experience who developed an app, then shared it with a colleague who promptly got a Windows security warning which they didn’t understand and couldn’t fix. And an experienced developer who has used vibe coding tools and, with that expertise, was able to see where the apps produced were going wrong, and identity problems such as the tools hallucinating errors where there were none.
This is the way. And with all GenAI tools, not just vide coding. You cannot trust what they create and must apply a level of critical analysis or expertise when evaluating the outputs. Unless of course you don’t care about making things which are good and useful, which I would hope is not the case in our community. I was therefore deeply disappointed in a horrible, anti-human comment in the chat about human developers which I’m not going to repeat.
To whit, I will leave you with two links. For the AI evangelists, a cautionary tale on Tom’s Hardware from someone who trusted Google’s Antigravity a little too much and was rewarded with a wiped hard drive. And a tool I found, Slop Evader, which is a plugin for Chrome and Firefox which lets you search the internet like it was 2022, before the launch of ChatGPT, if you absolutely must be sure that something you are looking for wasn’t made by AI. (Well… almost sure. Generative AI tools and content existed before ChatGPT after all, they just weren’t mainstream.)