Thoughts of a hobbyist programmer for almost 50 years
I posted this tonight to Reddit , and it is getting some positive traction. We have seen many perspectives about vibe coding in this community. Professionals are concerned about security, and also seem fearful of encroachment on their profession. I may have a unique perspective. While I have never been a professional programmer, I have been a hobbyist programmer since 1979. Yes, you read that right, for 47 years. I started on the TRS-80 Model I and then the IBM PC and its descendants. There have been three developments that have thrilled me over those decades: Getting a computer Going online (CompuServe, Bulletin Boards, the Internet and then the web) And Artificial Intelligence I have programmed mostly in script languages like BASIC, Visual BASIC, PERL, PHP, and Python. And ones you probably never heard of,like Toolbook and Dbase III. And I’ve dabbled in Java, Cobol even, and C. I am not generating SaaS applications with the hopes of getting rich. I do not under...