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by IAmGraydon 4 days ago
True vibe coding (as in, using an LLM to write software end to end without understanding what's going on under the hood) just doesn't work in the long term, so it will likely stop itself. No one who's serious creates software this way.

That said, I don't understand why it seems like it has to be all or nothing. Just architect the software yourself and tell the LLM to modify small chunks of code that you understand. Or maybe not even small, but a body of code where you understand what it does and can understand what the LLM is changing. Don't tell it to implement a feature - tell it to implement a function. If you can't do this, then you're a wannabe who's using LLMs to LARP as an actual programmer.