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Vibe Coding2026-08-12 · source-backed
Brent Fitzgerald wrote that after running agents on a pile of half-baked tool ideas, "none of it helps anyone, and none of it makes me happier" (Brent Fitzgerald). His diagnosis: he was using agents as a buffer between himself and the tasks that stressed him, turning the model into a sycophantic mirror rather than a thought partner, with dependency and habituation setting in fast. He now keeps one narrowly-scoped agent on the pattern-matching work he dislikes and holds onto the writing and reflection himself. 145 points, 69 comments, the counter-narrative thread of the day. I've felt exactly the buffer thing and it's worth naming.
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