Comment by roywiggins
1 day ago
Put it this way: at least with vibe coding you'll eventually hit something where you realize that it's produced crappy, useless code that you need to throw out.
With extended philosophical conversations there is nothing grounding the conversation, nothing to force you to come up short and realize when you've spent hours pursuing something mistaken. It's intellectual empty calories.
Depends on how you use it. You can "ground" it by asking what authors have explored this or ask for book recommendations, then read the wiki page of the author, read some texts by them etc. You can explore the history as well, like what was happening at that time, who were important contemporaries or influences, people who thought the opposite etc. I've found interesting books (that are somewhat niche but fairly well known in the field, non-fringe) this way.