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I think it's revealing that a group that historically values making decisions based on verifiable and accurate information is now jumping to discredit "Vibe Coding" based on rumors that are easily disproven.

1. Tea App wasn't vibe coding - It was built before vibe coding and the leak was incorrectly secured Firebase https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/26/official-statement-fro...

2. Replit "AI Deleted my Database" drama was caused by guy getting inaccurate AI support. All he needed to do was click a "Rollback Here" button to instantly recover all code and data. https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1946240562736365809

What does this eagerness to discredit vibe coding say about us?

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It's just human nature. Technology advances exponentially and huge leaps forward are increasingly being compressed into very short amounts of time. Just like how sages were worried about memory after the invention of writing or luddites were worried about job displacement with the industrial revolution; it is natural. What would the Italian Renaissance artists think of Photoshop? People whose livelihood and identity are inherently tied to this discipline can't help but be dismissive. "Vibe Coding" will be "coding" or "programming" in the near future, likely in just a few years as tools evolve. Just like we use text editors and GUIs now to do computing instead of punch cards and a single CLI.

> Just like how sages were worried about memory after the invention of writing or luddites were worried about job displacement with the industrial revolution;

This is pretty exemplary of resolution loss in verbal reasoning.

Which sages were worried about memory after the invention of writing? If you refer to Phaedrus dialogue, the passage about the invention of writing is a just a story that is used to move the conversation along. By that time writing had existed for thousands of year. The dialogue is about rhetoric and learning, not about writing itself.

Luddites are also often quoted by people with a lossy compression of history. These "King Ludd" graffiti and sabotage actions are highly correlated with labor action suppression and severe enforcement of criminal acts calling for execution of laborers involved in labor organization. It was a revolt against severe oppression, not some dumb way to try and stop progress.

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