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I know right, had this discussion last week and it's difficult to argue when people are blinded by the "magic" and hype of the slot machine.

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Which interestingly is the meat of this article. The key points aren’t that “vibe coding is bad” but that the design and experience of these tools is actively blinding and seductive in a way that impairs ability to judge effectiveness.

Basically, instead of developers developing, they've been half-elevated to the management class where they manage really dumb but really fast interns (LLM's).

But they dont get the management pay, and they are 100% responsible for the LLMs under them. Whereas real managers get paid more and can lay blame and fire people under them.

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