> One reason developers are developers is the dopamine loop > You write code, it doesn’t work, you fix it, it works, great! Dopamine rush. Several dozens or a hundred times a day.

This statement resonates with me. Vibe coding gets the job done quickly, but without the same joy. I used to think that it was the finished product that I liked to create, but maybe it's the creative process of building. It's like LEGO kits, the fun is putting them together, not looking at the finished model.

On the flip side, coding sessions where I bang my head against the wall trying to figure out some black box were never enjoyable. Nor was writing POCOs, boilerplate, etc.