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For me, the most compelling use of LLMs is to one shot scripts, small functions, unit tests, etc.

I don’t understand how people have the patience to do an entire application just vibe coding the whole time. As the article suggests, it doesn’t even save that much time.

If it can’t be done in one shot with simple context I don’t want it.

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I did a company hackathon recently where we were encouraged to explore vibe coding more and this was essentially my take-away too. It's kinda perfect for a hackathon but it was insanely mind-numbing to relegate the problem solving and mental model-building to the LLM and sit there writing prompts all day. If that has to become my career, I genuinely might have to change career paths, but it doesn't seem like that's likely -- using it as a tool to help here and there and sometimes provide suggestions definitely feels like way to actually use it to get better results.

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