Is vibe coding boring? The debate over whether coding itself was ever the point
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-13
A viral tweet complains that vibe coding is "incredibly boring" — it's your personal website, why tell the computer to build it, and what are you supposed to do while waiting? Quoting it, teortaxesTex asks whether people were ever interested in coding purely for the experience of writing code. The exchange captures a core tension of the vibe coding era: is programming a means or an end, and what happens to the hobbyist's sense of participation when AI does the typing?
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