Vibe Coding Gets You 80% There. This Is What the Other 20% Requires.
What vibe coding actually is
Strip away the hype and vibe coding is simple: you describe the outcome in plain language, the AI writes the code, and you steer by feel instead of by spec. You're not reading every line. You're reacting to whether the thing works, then asking for the next change.
That's a genuinely new way to build. For most of software history, you had to know how to make the computer do something before you could make it do it. Vibe coding removes that wall. You need to know what you want and whether the result looks right.
Which is exactly why it's so powerful at the start of something — and so risky at the end.
Vibe coding is a brilliant way to start and a terrible way to finish.
Why the first 80% feels like magic
Early on, vibe coding wins on every axis that...
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