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Comment by the_af

21 hours ago

The problem with this discussion is that different interlocutors have different opinions of what vibe coding really means.

For example, another person in this thread argues:

> I'd rather give my green or clueless or junior or inexperienced devs said knives than having them throw spaghetti on a wall for days on end, only to have them still ask a senior to help or do the work for them anyways.

So they are clearly not talking about experienced coders. They are also completely disregarding the learning experience any junior coder must go through in order to become an experienced coder.

This is clearly not what you're arguing though. So which "vibe coding" are we discussing? I know which one I meant when I spoke of monkeys and sharp knives...

I mean it very literally, taking the what he said together with who is the person who said it - an experienced professional sculpting a solution using a very complex set of tools, with a clear idea in his head, but with unusual and slightly uncomfortable disinterest in the exact details of how the final product looks from the inside.