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discreteeventtoday at 12:40 PM1 replyview on HN

The ai is just pattern matching. Vibing is not understanding, whether done by humans or machines. Vibe programmers (of which there are many) make a mess of the codebase piling on patch after patch. But they get the tests to pass!

Vibing gives you something like the geocentric model of the solar system. It kind of works but but it's much more complicated and hard to work with.


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Abstract_Typisttoday at 8:16 PM

Nice analogy *

I guess the current wave is going to give us Sofware Development Epicycles (SDEC?)

* All analogies are "wrong", some analogies are useful