Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding

Re:Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by skydhash on Sunday February 15, 2026 @08:01AM (#47023329)

With handwritten code, the humans know what they don’t know. If you want some constants or some formula, you don’t invent or guess it, you ask the domain expert.

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Re:Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by michaelcampbell on Sunday February 15, 2026 @08:38AM (#47023567)

> With handwritten code, the humans know what they don’t know.

I find this often not to be the case at all.

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Re:Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by Fellshard on Sunday February 15, 2026 @09:35AM (#47024010)

Let's put it this way: the human author is capable of doing so. The LLM is not. You can cultivate the human to learn to think in this way. You can for a brief period coerce an LLM to do so.

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Re:Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by michaelcampbell on Monday February 16, 2026 @09:27AM (#47035390)

True, but IMO irrelevant. "What could have been" (capabilities) is just another "if only..."

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