Comment by legitster

The author makes it sound like such a binary choice, but there's a happy middle where you are having AI generate large blocks of code and then you closely supervise it. My experience so far with AI is to treat it like you're a low-level manager delegating drudgework. I will regularly rewrite or reorganize parts of the code and give it back to the AI to reset the baseline and expectations.

AI is far from perfect, but the same is true about any work you may have to entrust to another person. Shipping slop because someone never checked the code was literally something that happened several times at startups I have worked at - no AI necessary!

Vibecoding is an interesting dynamic for a lot of coders specifically because you can be good or bad at vibecoding - but the skill to determine your success isn't necessarily your coding knowledge but your management and delegation soft skills.