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look, i'm as big an andrej fan as the next guy but this has gotten entirely out of hand. he's not actually recommending this as a best practice or certainly not a differentiator to hire people on. this is going to fall on deaf ears but lets take a chill pill on blowing every single thing he says out of proportion okay

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For business tools, I'd take a domain expert who understands process and can vibe code over a junior coding grad.

You'll want to price out handling when the domain expert's code breaks, and the exponentially increasing inference costs as the code grows.

I’ve heard this a thousand times: You know that small stupid tool you wrote last week? Everyone is using it and you must adapt it to all our services (let’s say 100) by the end of the week. Ask if you need help, we’ll ignore you because we don’t have any specs.

Also as OP said: "a domain expert who understands process" What happens when that expert retires?

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