[tptacek]

I don't know about vibe coding (I'm not a fan of vibe coding) but LLM agents make me more likely to use good libraries, not less, because they instantly know how to use them; there's less intellectual friction to breaking them out (don't have to find and add the dep, don't have to look for the example code). These kinds of things made me ultra-likely to just hand-code crappier versions of stuff libraries did, before I got LLM-assisted.

[tedunangst]

Is it your assessment or the LLM's that it's a good library? There have been many times I looked at the API for a library, said this is bonkers, and bailed. The weird contortions needed to use something should be a signal.

[tptacek]

It's mine. I've been shooting down LLM library picks semiregularly. That's kind of what motivated me to comment: it is not at all my experience that LLMs steer me away from libraries, and rather more my experience that it's keeping me on my toes suggesting libraries I might not want to use.