RDHenderson

The distinction between coding-by-prompting and knowing what to build is the right one, but I'd push it further.

The problem with vibe coding isn't the coding part — it's that people are trying to think through their product while they're building it. That's always been a bad idea. AI just makes the consequences arrive faster.

Good product thinking happens before you touch any tool. What problem are you actually solving? For whom? What does success look like? What are you not building? These questions don't get easier with LLMs — if anything, because you can generate plausible-looking output so quickly, it's easier than ever to convince yourself you've answered them when you haven't.

The vibe coding mess isn't an AI problem. It's a 'skipped the thinking' problem that AI has made cheap enough to do at scale.