“Just as with creative works like images or music, “vibe coding” misunderstands the value of “doing the work”. It’s weird to have to say it but thinking and understanding and improving ideas happens while doing the work, happens while submerging yourself into a thing, a process, an idea. You don’t know what you want or need before you actually start the work, the actual truth appears while trying and carving and building and fucking up.
But we don’t need that anymore. We vibe results. That is the “AI” promise: Results without effort. Pure output without significant input.”
“I wrote about how “AI” systems are teaching people to expect less of products: AI always has the “all of this might be wrong and shit, check it (even though we know you won’t)”. This also is an externality. We are teaching people that they are not worth to have decent, well-made things. This might sound not that big but I find it so disrespectful and disgraceful. It’s a manifestation of the logic of con-men: Everyone cheats, nobody has any pride in what they do, just con everyone and expect them to do the same unless they are suckers. This is deeply inhumane. And deeply sad.”
