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> getting engineering experience that 15 years of hands on engineering couldn't give me.

This is the equivalent of how watching someone climb mountain everest in a tv show or youtube makes you feel like you did it too. You never did, your brain got the feeling that you did and it'll never motivate you to do it yourself.

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This is only true for fully unsupervised "vibe coding". But you'll find this will not work for anything beyond a basic todo list app.

You'll free up your time from actually writing code, but on the other hand, you'll have to do way more reading, planning, making architectural decisions etc. This is what engineering feels like should be.

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