Re:Vibe Coding and the Death of Craftsmanship (Personal Essay)
by blinkbat on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:22PM
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but all of that said, when is the last time you TRULY solved an entire codebase by hand? no stackoverflow, no google, no intellisense, no autocomplete (hell, no asking other engineers)?
Re:Vibe Coding and the Death of Craftsmanship (Personal Essay)
by umang-sinha on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:26PM
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long time man. i think around a year. i don't really remember tbh. but it has been a really really long time
Re:Vibe Coding and the Death of Craftsmanship (Personal Essay)
by blinkbat on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:31PM
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same here, of course. so in a sense, LLMs are just the next phase of a gradual erosion, not a total sea change.
Re:Vibe Coding and the Death of Craftsmanship (Personal Essay)
by umang-sinha on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:33PM
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and it is upto us to resist the erosion
Re:Vibe Coding and the Death of Craftsmanship (Personal Essay)
by umang-sinha on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:25PM
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coding as a passion project in a separate environment is an interesting idea.
almost like deliberately creating a space where the struggle is allowed to exist again.
the challenge though would be finding out time for my passion. if i'm not able to do that then only i am the one to blame
LLMs are freeing companies to produce faster, but your expertise is still needed to supervise them for now.
coding in your spare time as a passion project is likely the outcome for many engineers who like the craft.
you might go as far as separating environments, or even whole machines, for your passion. keep a machine with NO ai options available to push you to code solutions by hand, etc.