akavel's digital garden

"I’ll be honest; yes, vibe coding does accelerate prototyping. Yes, it also lowers the floor for experimentation. But we have to stop pretending that this comes without trade-offs. You are accumulating technical debt at warp speed. (…) What, you thought it was trained on good code? Hah.Worse, you may not even notice. The very act of vibe coding discourages investigation. You didn’t write this code. You don’t own it. You don’t feel responsible for it. (…) it still gives you tunnel vision to a degree unless you had a perfectly outlined plan from the start. Unless you know what exactly you were going for, (…) even if you reject its proposals, it will plant the seeds of an idea in your head. (via)

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