much worse at producing artifacts that are comprehensible to humans
This has always been the case. Just try making sense of the output of any assembler/compiler/transpiler. Why do we think differently about generated source code?
I mean more in the psychological safety sense. An assembler's process is deterministic, not statistical, and knowing that affects how we interact with it.
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This has always been the case. Just try making sense of the output of any assembler/compiler/transpiler. Why do we think differently about generated source code?
The two metaphors for vibe coding I keep seeing are:
* it's like a compiler => you can trust it
* it's a revolution like the spinning jenny => what came before is fast becoming an obsolete hobby
It's not just that these metaphors are bad, they are absurd if you think about then for just a few seconds.
I mean more in the psychological safety sense. An assembler's process is deterministic, not statistical, and knowing that affects how we interact with it.