Everything in the Marvel Universe is just wizards. Nobody is coding. Nobody is engineering. Nobody is doing anything more technical than "Hit him with a bigger rock".
Tony is just a wizard doing wizard shit in stylized techno-pastiche.
Yeah, Tony was capable of doing whatever the writers wrote him to be capable of, just like every other fictional character. And the writers wrote him doing it in a manner similar to the "programming" in Swordfish or the tech work in NCIS (or whatever show it was that had multiple people typing on one keyboard at the same time). As in difficult to tell if they had any understanding of it at all, sensationalised it for entertainment purposes, deliberately made it unlike any real programming to troll people who do understand programming, or some combination of all those.
MCU science might as well just be another school of magic. Especially when Tony's suit could shapeshift and convert between matter and energy because of some quantum mumbo jumbo. He just cast a quantum spell on it.
Also every movie had multiple impacts in that iron suit that should have been worse for him than most car crashes.
I mean, I don't really object to the premise of the character - Batman-like super genius who stacks the deck in his favor by building a bunch of cool gadgets to get him out of tight spots. But I agree, its far more fun to see a character like Tony run up against the limits of his gadgetry than to hand him the Super Science "I Win Button" and wait until the last five minutes of the show to press it.
Well, he had to be, programming his own AI basically by himself.
From what I remember he seem to mostly use it to change parameters and intiate things with voice commands. At least in the movies.
To be fair, if our AI was as capable as his AI vibe coding would be viable.
when you code an actual AI like Jarvis, it's ok to vibe code with it for the rest of your days
A vibe programmer that built a palm-sized fusion reactor in a cave over the course of 3 months with a single companion? Perfectly respectable to me. And he probably made his own AI too :)
I've always imagined peak programming as building up from low level languages, putting on some layers of abstraction and automatization written by yourself, and end up writing some trivial commands to produce very interesting outputs... Who knows? Maybe throwing around some holograms and voice-commands asking for nonsense. It doesn't get much more vibey than that.
Programming in vim and emacs does look like that lol.
So what i get out of this is if you make your own homemade llm then we can call it "vibe" coding. Otherwise, if your just farting around on sone corporate data mining llm then it's fart coding?
Have I misunderstood the term vibe coder? I thought it meant people who weren't good at coding. I thought Stark's whole thing was that he's a genius. Is he notoriously bad at software but good with hardware or something?
vibe coding is when you let an llm write almost all your code, taking its output at face value. tony stark in the films just vaguely describes to his computer what he wants and trusts that it does the right thing.
I think the underlying understanding is that Tony wrote the AI he’s asking to write the code. So, in effect, the AI he built is a form of scripting. Rather than spending his time churning out code, the AI will churn out code that’s up to his standard because he wrote the AI.
From my understanding a vibe coder is someone who builds software using mainly AI generated code. It doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a bad coder, but often the code generated by AI is just hard to process at this scale and people will have no clue what exactly is going on in their project.
It's fiction, so it'll have differences from reality.
In speulative fiction, the only rule is to make it interesting for whoever consuming it.
This meme made me feel better about myself. Been copy pasting from Stack overflow for more than a decade, vibe coding was a real step up for me.
Not quite there yet, still waiting on the holographic AI hardware design. Coming soon I hear.
The more we talk about things the greater chance it becomes the norm. What's this tony? Never heard of him. Vibe coding? Never heard of it and I don't think I would be interested. Moving on.
