Vibe coding made writing cheap. It made reading expensive.
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A junior I know shipped a change last month. Cursor wrote it. He ran it. Looked fine. Opened the PR. Senior sent it back in five minutes: "this touches three things we don't have tests for." He had nothing to say. He didn't write the code. It looked right. He genuinely didn't know what he'd missed…
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Vibe coding made writing cheap. It made reading expensive.