My understanding1 is that true "vibe coding"2 would be level six or even seven3; using a first draft from some LLM and then doing the rest of the work yourself is almost sane in comparison to thinking that you can keep on being a serial entrepeneur without ever befriending, or at least touching the shoulders of, your keyboard jockey.
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mosly from memes, social media gossip, and a few conversations; I haven't actually followed any of the vibe coding gurus myself. I realise there are serious folks with a strong technological background who are working on making the following footnote a feasible technique... ↩
true "vibe coding" is where you only talk, by voice rather than text chat; and you complain like you would to customer support when the app you're building doesn't work [or even compile]. ↩
so if "true vibe coding" is level seven, then level six would be where you are continuously using AI to drive your development environment, however you still audit actual the source code; as opposed to level seven, where code reviewers of the PR might be the first humans to see the patches and resulting code. ↩
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