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Vibe Coding2026-03-17 · source-backed
Tom Johnell argues LLM exhaustion is a self-inflicted "doom-loop psychosis": tired engineers write worse prompts, get worse outputs, spiral. The fix: TDD discipline applied to LLM workflows — define success/failure criteria before prompting, keep feedback loops under 5 minutes, stop when you can't articulate "done." Source
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