'Most People Can't Describe What They Want': The Vibe Coding Debate Flares Up
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-11-05
The debate over vibe coding continues. The quoted post argues the "most people can cook" analogy fails—most people aren't actually good at cooking, it repeatedly takes time, and results are often worse than a restaurant. So even while agreeing vibe coding tools are a bad idea for most, that analogy doesn't hold. The original poster goes further: most people simply cannot describe what they want with precision, pointing at the core bottleneck of vibe coding and prompt engineering—precisely articulating intent is itself a scarce skill.
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