Vibe-coded research rule: don't attempt what you don't care to understand
generativist · x · 2026-10-26
Developer generativist shares his growing rule for vibe-coded research: never attempt things you neither understand nor have any interest in understanding.
He invokes Feynman's dictum — "the first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool" — as a heuristic for the AI era: lower barriers to building make self-deception about whether things actually work easier than ever.
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