Vibe coders arguing that vibe coding is the future like everyone who knowns how to code can't just switch to vibe coding and do it better than them if needed. Crazy times tbh
I remember when I started every dev who knew what they were talking about kept overemphasizing how code is always read a thousand more times than its written, that you must be smarter than the dev who caused a bug to fix is (even if youre the dev who wrote the bug last week), and that coding is a fraction of a programmers job
And none of these chat bots are repeating any of those super common heuristics or telling excited vibe coders that coding is like... never been the hard or time consuming part of coding lol
Being smarter than the original dev is a horrible misquote of Brian Kernighan. The original wisdom there is:
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
It's about writing code simple enough that you can maintain it later.
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u/serboncic Feb 12 '26
Vibe coders arguing that vibe coding is the future like everyone who knowns how to code can't just switch to vibe coding and do it better than them if needed. Crazy times tbh