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observationistlast Tuesday at 11:58 PM0 repliesview on HN

Exactly - I know enough to know what I don't know, since I've been able to interact with professionals, and went down the path of programming far enough to know I didn't want to do it. I've also gotten good at enough things to know the pattern of "be really shitty at doing things until you're not bad, and eventually be ok, and if you work your ass off, someday you'll actually be good at it".

The neat thing about vibe coding is knowing that I'm shitty at actual coding and achieving things in hours that would likely have taken me months to learn to do the right way, or weeks to hack together with other people's bubblegum and duct tape. I'd have to put in a couple years to get to the "OK" level of professional programming, and I feel glad I didn't. Lucky, even.