[zimpenfish]

> The difficulty of programming, indeed the whole point, is to understand the problem

I'd dispute "the whole point" - there's a whole bunch of problems I can understand but would struggle to implement effectively in code (which is another big point - there's little use in a solution that takes, e.g., two months to calculate last week's numbers when your revenue/profit/planning depends on those numbers.)

At a minimum, for me, the difficulties of programming are many stepped: understanding the problem -> converting that understanding to algorithms/whatnot -> implementing that understanding -> making it efficient (if required) -> verifying the solution.

Trying to boil it down to "ONE COOL TRICK!" that justifies vibe-coding is daft.

[There's also a whole bunch of things I can implement but don't really understand (business logic, sales/tax rules, that kind of thing) but that's why we have project managers, domain experts, etc.]