I became a big fan of David Bau about 10 years back, when I came across his conformal mapping page. My understanding of complex numbers changed forever.

There is an amusing parallel with his views on vibe coding. Back in the 90's and 2000's I noticed a pattern with the code developed by the huge influx of inexperienced programmers jumping on the dotcom bandwagon. The code can only be maintained by the same people who wrote it. There was no documentation, no intuition, no best practices and other wouldn't know where to fix if there is any issue. Probably the code aligned with the programmer's cultural habits and values (what's ok, what's not ok), which others might lack. Ironically, this has kind of provided job security for them, as it is difficult for others, to deal with that code.

I guess the LLMs are also into this "job-security" trick, by ensuring only LLMs can manage the LLMs generated code.