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FabHK • today at 3:46 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

So an architect can't take pride in a house where they didn't put one brick on top of the other? Norman Foster "merely commissioned" the iconic HSBC building in Hong Kong?


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bigmadshoe • today at 3:51 PM

Not if the architect said "make a cool design for a house" to some team and went out for the day.

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pebble • today at 3:51 PM

An architect does far more work than your typical vibeprompter.

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jawngee • today at 4:11 PM

Are you really trying to equate a vibe coder with an architect of a skyscraper?

jplusequalt • today at 3:55 PM

>So an architect can't take pride in a house where they didn't put one brick on top of the other? Norman Foster "merely commissioned" the iconic HSBC building in Hong Kong?

I never said anything about pride. I was talking about whether terms like "build" apply when the act of building is outsourced to an AI agent.

Also, I would seriously scrutinize the claim that a person vibe coding an application is really getting into the nitty gritty details. These days it seems like people are merely describing what they want and a few high level guidelines, and then letting the AI agents to do the rest of the planning + architecture.