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A comment on Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning. Parent comment

Re:Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning by bottd on Sunday December 07, 2025 @11:39PM (#46188396)
> Therein lies the problem. LLMs are not assistants.

Assisting a person and being an assistant are not synonymous. A cane assists a man while he walks. It is a stick. That's it.

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Re:Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning by AdieuToLogic on Monday December 08, 2025 @12:03AM (#46188572)
> Assisting a person and being an assistant are not synonymous. A cane assists a man while he walks. It is a stick. That's it.

The difference here is no reasonable person claims a cane can teach someone to walk.

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