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Vibe Coding Is Overrated
Vibes Can Only Take You So Far
The term, popularized by Andrej Karpathy, describes the act of coding by simply uttering commands to AI assistants like Cursor. Vibe coding is nice for developing small prototypes and iterating faster, but what strikes me as potentially revolutionary is that coding assistants, when used properly, will basically reduce the cost of producing software and thus make it more likely that people will produce highly specific software with fewer features — just the features they need for their workflows. To build robust and complex software, you still need to learn, understand, and master programming languages and computer science in general.
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