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notedbrewtoday at 5:28 AM1 replyview on HN

You ignore the reality of vibe coding. If someone just prompts and never reads the code and tests the result barely, then the prompts can be a valuable insight.

But I am not rooting for either, just saying.


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refactor_mastertoday at 5:54 AM

If A vibes, and B is overwhelmed with noise, how does B reliably go through it? If using AI, this necessarily faces the same problems that recording all A's actions was trying to solve in the first place, and we'd be stuck in a never-ending cycle.

We could also distribute the task to B, C, D, ... N actors, and assume that each of them would "cover" (i.e. understand) some part of A's output. But this suddenly becomes very labor intensive for other reasons, such as coordination and trust that all the reviewers cover adequately within the given time...

Or we could tell A that this is not a vibe playground and fire them.