There's a big difference between vibe-coder and engineer who uses ai to speed up their work.
Perhaps a year ago “vibe coding” was indicative of a low quality product. It seems many have not updated their understanding to match today’s capabilities. I am vibe coding. That does not mean I am incompetent or that the product will be bad. I have 10 years of experience. Using agentic AI to implement, iterate, and debug issues is now the workflow most teams are targeting. While last year chances were slim for the a…
Indicative in my dictionary doesn't mean definitive. It just makes it much more likely. You can make quality products while LLMs write >99% of the code. This has been possible for more than a year, so it's not a lack of updating of beliefs that is the issue. I've done so myself. Rather, 90% of above products are low quality, at a much higher rate than say, 2022, pre-GPT. As such, it's an indicator. That 10% exists, just like pearls can hide in a pile of shit.
As others have said the reason is time investment. You can takes 2 months to build something where the LLM codes 99%. Or you can take 2 hours. HN, and everywhere else, is flooded by the latter. That's why it's mostly crap. I did the former. And luckily it led to a good result. Not a coincidence.
This applies far beyond coding. It applies to _everything_ done with LLMs. You can use them to write a book in 2 hours. You can use them to write a book in 2 years.