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People who vibe-code a replacement for a product will rebuild the visible tip of the iceberg and then discover the downstream problems they never knew existed.

Drawn from what Kent Beck said

vibe coding Building software by describing what you want and accepting what comes back, without reading much of it.

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  1. Kent Beck

    Creator of extreme programming and test-driven development

    So, we're going to see people get into those where they're like, "Well, I vibe code the tip of the iceberg. I throw away the rest of the iceberg and now I'm in trouble because now I don't know what to do. Now I get to these downstream problems that I didn't even know existed." So, we're going to see on the on the side of the the the vibe coding replacers, we're going to see that kind of a naivity play out.

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