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Vibe Coding2026-08-17 · source-backed
Bloem's craft-coding manifesto (88 points, 53 comments) proposes the opposite of agentic coding: "You code and you have the AI check your work. Treat it like a reviewer" (Hacker News). The dogmas are concrete and restrictive: no AI in the IDE or autocomplete, copy-paste snippets rather than granting codebase access, never let the model execute code, read the docs before asking, check your own code first, never implement a suggestion you do not understand. He frames it as viable on a $20/month subscription. I do not work this way and I would not, but reading it against this week's harness-optimization results is clarifying. Both positions agree the model's unsupervised output is the problem. They disagree only on whether you fix it with engineering or with abstinence.
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Both cover Hacker News, IDE; reported by the same outlet (news.ycombinator.com); overlapping topics (agent, code).
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Both cover Hacker News; reported by the same outlet (news.ycombinator.com); overlapping topics (against, agent, model).
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Both cover IDE; reported by the same outlet (news.ycombinator.com); overlapping topics (against, agent, code, coding).
Shared entity: Hacker News / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
Both cover Hacker News; reported by the same outlet (news.ycombinator.com); overlapping topics (agent, coding).