alt Hacker NewsThis isn't remotely true. Vibe coding explicitly does not care about whether software works correctly because the fundamental tenet is not needing to understand how the software works (& by extension being unable to verify whether it works correctly).
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yomismoaqui • last Thursday at 12:14 PM
No, vibe coding is about not reading the generated code but you have to check that it works, be it manually or using tests.
If you do not, why are you vibe coding?
Also there are ways to use a coding agent that are different from this and produce great results, like this:
https://friendlybit.com/python/writing-justhtml-with-coding-...
resize2996 • last Thursday at 2:58 PM
"fundamental tenet"? There's not an engineering pope speaking ex cathedra.
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That extension doesn't follow. It is possible to verify if software works without knowing how it works internally. This is true with many things. You don't need to know how a plane/car/elevator works to know that it works when you use it.
I would actually argue that only a small percentage of programmers know what happens in code on an instruction level, and near none on a micro-op or register level. Vibe-coding is just one more level of abstraction. The new "code" are the instructions to your LLM.