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		michaelcampbell 66 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Breaking the spell of vibe coding > With handwritten code, the humans know what they don’t know. I find this often not to be the case at all.

Fellshard 65 days ago [–]

Let's put it this way: the human author is capable of doing so. The LLM is not. You can cultivate the human to learn to think in this way. You can for a brief period coerce an LLM to do so.

michaelcampbell 64 days ago | [–]

True, but IMO irrelevant. "What could have been" (capabilities) is just another "if only..."

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