Anyone else underwhelmed by Prompt Engineering/ VibeCoding
Am I the only one? I feel like everyday I hear how it will replace everyone or how it’s becoming so amazing yet it never seems to go anywhere.
I’ve had success prompting on projects before, even over a decent timeframe, but nothing I couldn’t do myself, and only with great handholding. I’ve had it fail miserably as well in equal measure. Admittedly I’ve never created RAG pipelines or loop engineered or used agents or whatever, but I still just don’t see the hype. I really don't see how from any conceptual standpoint asking an agent to work on the exact same problem repeatedly would somehow fix it, if you had a junior who was incapable of learning, why would you make him do something he had already failed at?
I can see the benefits for speed, definitely is amazing on that front, if you know what you want and don’t need to maintain it, and if your goal was merely to get a product out I can see the reasoning, I can fully see why you would like it. However, If you had something like a banking application, a pacemaker, or a competitive game engine, how could any form of this engineering style work.