Vibe Coding Is Creating Braindead Coders | N’s Blog
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/10
The below blog post sparked my thought into finally having words for what bothered me for such a long time using LLM for coding:
When using LLM for coding, you basically unlearn to solve simple problems. That practically also removes your ability to solve the difficult problems that LLM cannot help solving.
[Wayback/Archive] Vibe Coding Is Creating Braindead Coders | N’s Blog ending with
Because the day we stop struggling with hard problems is the day we stop being programmers, and become something else entirely.
and before that:
Most importantly — remember why you we write code. It’s to create something from nothing, to solve problems that seemed impossible, and build things that matter. Don’t forget the why.
Via:
- [WaybackSave/Archive] Jack Sharkey on X: “Cursor is killing your ability to think for yourself. Before you can architect a solution, AI throws slop on the screen as you blindly hit tab. You spend the next 30 minutes debugging why the code doesn’t work or compile. In the end, you learned nothing. Two engineers on our”
- [WaybackSave/Archive] Namanyay on X: “@jacksharkey11 it’s a pattern and affects senior devs as well. wrote about this recently …”
--jeroen
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