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Vibe Coding2026-08-02 · source-backed
Aaron Brethorst names two modes: greenhouse is diffuse and exploratory, generate broadly and evaluate afterward; lens concentrates on a known objective, where the agent proposes ten things and you discard nine because they aren't on the line between here and done. His claim is that the skill isn't mastering either mode but detecting when you've drifted into the wrong one, with domain expertise as the oracle separating valuable from plausible-but-wrong. Modest HN traction, but I've been in the wrong mode plenty of times and never had a word for it.
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