Vibe coding teaches nothing but empty calories: to become a competent programmer you have to program, and if it can be vibe-coded, you are not a programmer.

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  Coding is now specification, and the number of people who can do it just went from thirty million to a billion.

  Huang says coding is now specification and the number of people who can do it went from thirty million to a billion. Hansson says vibe coding teaches nothing but empty calories and that if it can be vibe-coded you are not a programmer. Huang is counting the billion; Hansson says they have not learned the thing being counted.

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• A person at maximum vibe-coding speed has about three productive hours a day, and a company that will not let them stop there is going to break. SYSteve Yegge11 Mar 2026vibe coding
• A vibe-coded codebase grows heresies: wrong ideas that take root among the agents, keep coming back, and are very hard to weed out. SYSteve Yegge11 Mar 2026vibe coding
• Deciding what software should do and why is still a human job: vibe coding changes the implementation phase far more than the planning phase. JNJakob Nielsen7 Mar 2025vibe coding
• Designers should be designing right at the boundary of the current model, hoping the next one solves it; understanding what is possible and pushing the edges even if you get stuck is probably a good place to be right now. BLBrian Lovin14 Apr 2026vibe coding
• Leaving a known production bug unfixed is the right call when the business impact is zero — my vibe-coded service crashes and still has fewer outages than LeetCode. NENeetCode24 Jun 2026vibe coding

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