Comment by kerkeslager

In theory, vibe coding and understanding don't have to be mutually exclusive, but in practice, I think that the people who have the discipline to actually maintain their understanding of a codebase are few. I've code reviewed things from people who claim they are reviewing what comes out of the LLM carefully, and talked to them about the code, and while they think they understand the code, they simply don't, which becomes abundantly clear when I try to explain the problems I find in the code.