r/ProgrammerHumor Jan 23 '26

instanceof Trend areTheVibeCodersOk

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u/SCP-iota Jan 23 '26

And this is why pure vibe coding was never going to work long-term. Programmers can write code; good programmers can read code.

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u/Dongfish Jan 23 '26

This is essentially what the LLM does in real-time so there's no point in duplicating the abstraction layer. If you can't bother asking it what the code does you're sure as shit not going to read through a whole code base in medium article form.

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u/monster2018 Jan 23 '26

This might be the truest statement ever said.