Salvatore Sanfilippo on the distinction between vibe coding and โautomatic programmingโ:
Iโm a programmer, and I use automatic programming. The code I generate in this way is mine. My code, my output, my production. I, and you, can be proud.
If you are not completely convinced, think to Redis. In Redis there is not much technical novelty, especially at its start it was just a sum of basic data structures and networking code that every competent system programmer could write. So, why it became a very useful piece of software? Because of the ideas and visions it contained.
Programming is now automatic, vision is not (yet).
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