That raises the question if LLM-generated code is going out of fashion in general. The article seems to assume it will always exist and always need clean-up. But what if it's not worth it and instead you should (mainly) return to the world where humans write code? Simply because salary < LLM-credits + cleanup costs.

Using a LLM to generate code, that you then check and use is a bit different from vibe coding, where no one looks at the code anymore.

But both is here to stay.

It might turn out to be unsustainably expensive to vibe code all day. That it was so subsidized might have been the irrational exuberance, which arguably leaves a bait-and-switch hangover.

But the general idea of compressing every code example in existence into a predictive autocompleter and generative assistant will never go away.

It would be like coding without syntax highlighting, by choice. Sure, people did it when they had to, but not anymore. You could, but why?

Do I really feel better about myself for writing a slight variation on depth-first search by hand for the 80th time? Not really?

Vibe coding with today's AIs is definitely going out of fashion. That's because we will have much better AIs tomorrow anyway.