No free lunch in vibe coding

"Complexity can be managed, though, and guess what’s really great for managing complexity — a programming language."

Lately it feels like marketing is still selling me a dream of AI simplicity. Yet behind the curtain is all the stuff (tech) that still makes the widget work. It is still an abstraction - another framework even.

It's not replacing any old layers that matter like the computers itself. At most it got rid of one of my IDEs and placed mme in another prompt-based one.

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