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I'm sorry but I'm frustrated by the blatant misuse of AI by my students and colleagues alike. It's so obvious when they don't understand what they've written.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Close but it's more extreme vibe coding is putting all ingredients into shit hole mixing them up, drinking all and smiling. Just like advertising.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

That's unfair to microwaves.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Man, don't you be dragging down microwave cookery like that. People who depend on LLMs are not like people who cook with the microwave; they're more like people who don't know how to cook, refuse to learn, eat takeout for every single meal, and still demand you address them as "chef".

And now I'm going to talk about microwave cookery.

I think people who object to microwave cooking and see it as 'lesser' are either snobs, or people who have never used anything less than 100% power and get food that's both scalding hot and still frozen.

If you're in the second camp, try cooking for twice as long at 50% power. For most foods you'll get an even heat well beyond anything a convection oven could manage. In some dishes the unevenness (e.g. crisping) is desirable, but in most it's not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As someone who worked in a kitchen quite long, a microwave is a good tool and never the best substitute

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you want a baked potato in under 10 minutes then the microwave is the only option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And that’s exactly my point! Same with rice, you can have rice in a few minutes via the microwave. I like to be in control of my food however and quite often choose the longer road so I have better choice in how the rice or potato comes out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Does anyone here actually cook in their microwave? I don't mean reheat things or defrost and heat a pizza pop, but like actually cook something with the varying temperatures and all that shit they can do. Like is anyone making raw meatballs, saucing them and cooking them in the microwave?

I remember my parents cooking onions with butter in the microwave to put on subs, but I've never done anything like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can steam potato from raw in the microwave, just need to put some water in a bowl next to the potatoes plate. Or use a special bowl made for this. It's quicker than using a steamer, and just as good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Super quick scrambled eggs.

Steamed broccoli.

Baked potatoes.

Chicken (small strips and 50% power)

Cake in a mug?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh I've totally forgotten about potatoes. I used to do that ages ago for 'baked' or mashed and it worked really well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, me.

Here's the rule of thumb: do you think the food benefits from being cooked unevenly? For meatballs as you mentioned, I'd sear them in a frying pan to get a little bit of crispiness before I cook them through in the sauce in the microwave. Hunters chicken, cakes, seafood, all good. The microwave will cook far more evenly than a convection oven, though sometimes the unevenness is desirable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

From time to time, just some veggies to go along with air fried chicken.

But that's because I don't own a stove, all of my cooking is handled by an air fryer, rice cooker, and the microwave

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I do so many things with my air fryer, such a great appliance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good analogy as most people don't understand how a microwave is working either.

That being said, at least microwaving isn't on fast track to pollute our entire ecosystem so...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

So what? Finish your thought.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Vibe coding is to coding what ordering takeout from a shady ghost kitchen is to cooking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

One of my co-workers, maybe oversold his capabilities and experience. That or whoever told me what he was capable of oversold him. Doesn't matter at this point. Not that long ago, he basically was never submitting any merge requests, and when he did there were a ton of issues. Then one week, everything changed. He was writing code and a style that didn't match what he had done the week before, there was an excessive amount of documentation where before there was none. It was co-pilot. He had gotten access to copilot, which we all have. But it was obvious that he's been leaning heavily into it.

And a short-term yeah it looks like he's doing really well. But I fear he's not actually learning anything by doing this. Which means if there's a mistake, for a major change that needs a happen, He's not going to get there on his own. One time he tried to submit a merge request and I was like, there's an obvious flaw here because this could be null and you're not handling that. If the company ever decides that we're not going to use co-pilot anymore, cuz I think we're still on a trial run, He's going to find himself right back where he started. And that's going to hurt his career in the end.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would say it's more accurate to say that vibe coding is to coding what microwaving a ready meal is to being a restaurant chef.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, "coding" to "cooking" is accurate because an unfortunate minority of people make code that makes the "microwave meal" look appetizing. Vibe coding can look like code and not work, while I've seen code that neither looks nor, in fact, is "edible".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You clearly haven't eaten my wife's cooking and most ready meals might look like food but don't have a lot of nutrition and have now salt than you need in a week.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I only downvoted this because it's an insult to microwave cooking.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

don't understand what they've written

Well first of all, they didn't write it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

vibe coding is when you promised your boss a nice steamed ham but you get some burgers from the nearest fast food instead and call it your cooking. and at the end you end up burning your house.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I know what you're referring to, and I thought that too until he said "northern lights". Ya gotta learn to listen.

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