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Why would it be obviously ridiculous if it granted the parent commenter so much productivity?

Perhaps the same obvious ridiculousness that manual agrarians passed upon the tractor.

Vibe coding is not using a chat interface to explore an unfamiliar domain like GP describes, it's letting an agent tool like Cursor or Goose do most of the work semi-independently.

Vibe coding is not looking at the code, essentially. See what Simon Willison has written about it (the original term was coined[0] by Andrej Karpathy): https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/

[0] Only two months ago!

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