Ask HN: Will vibe coding make creating throwaway prototypes more common?

2 pointscomplexworld2 comments

Fred Brooks wrote "Plan to throw one away" in the early 1970's.

But in my experience the opposite has been more common: a "prototype" ends up being used in production for a long time.

Now 50 years later, could we use vibe coding to make Brooks' idea come true?

The point of making a V0 that you then throw away, is to help you understand the problem better; it's not obvious that "vibe coding" contributes to that...

Actually I think the vibe coding process does make you think about the requirements. When the LLM writes some code, and you run it, you see what's missing. Maybe this only works well for simple systems, not complex ones.

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