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Vibe Coding2026-08-12 · source-backed
A developer who became his team's early LLM adopter posted about leading a complex system built heavily with LLM assistance and feeling anxious about how much architecture he actually holds (r/artificial). 58 upvotes, 53 comments, a 0.91 ratio, the highest engagement density in the day's sample, with practitioners describing the same pattern. Anecdote, not data. But it names a failure mode benchmark-driven coverage systematically misses: velocity gains that quietly transfer system understanding out of the team. This is what I mean when I say taste is the scarce resource. If you can't evaluate what came out, you didn't gain leverage, you took on a loan.
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Simon Willison released LLM / Shared entity: LLM / Earlier coverage
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