drob518The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
> That wouldn’t even be a big violation of the vibe coding concept. You’re reading the innards a little but you’re only giving high-level, conceptual, abstract ideas about how problems should be solved. The machine is doing the vast majority, if not literally all, of the actual writing.
Claude Code is being produced at AI Level 7 (Human specced, bots coded), whereas the author is arguing that AI Level 6 (Bots coded, human understands somewhat) yields substantially better results. I happen to agree, but I'd like to call out that people have wildly different opinions on this; some people say that the max AI Level should be 5 (Bots coded, human understands completely), and of course some people think that you lose touch with the ground if you go above AI Level 2 (Human coded with minor assists).
That's an interesting list. I think that the humans that will make the most progress in the next few years are the ones that push themselves up to the highest level of that list. Right now is a period of intense disruption and there are many coders that don't like the idea that their way of life is dead. There are still blacksmiths around today but for the most part it's made by factories and cheap 3rd world labor. I think the same is currently happening with coding, except it will allow single builders and designers to do the same thing as an entire team 5 years ago.
> I think the same is currently happening with coding, except it will allow single builders and designers to do the same thing as an entire team 5 years ago.
This part of your post I think signals that you are either very new or haven't been paying attention; single developers were outperforming entire teams on the regular long before LLMs were a thing in software development, and they still are. This isn't because they're geniuses, but rather because you don't get any meaningful speedup out of adding team members.
I've always personally thought there is a sweet spot at about 3 programmers where you still might see development velocity increase, but that's probably wrong and I just prefer it to not feel too lonely.
In any case teams are not there to speed anything up, and anyone who thinks they are is a moron. Many, many people in management are morons.