The analogy I was thinking of as I read this was: an architect that designs a beautiful building as opposed to the workers that take that design and then follow building codes to frame the house, or install the electrical.

The Vibe Coder is the one building prototypes to flesh out ideas, and once they flushed out the idea, they hand if off to the workers to follow standards to implement.

Although at the end of the article he does say that people should fall into both vibe/eng. and that is probably a good place to be to stay relevant in the future.

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happytoexplain 2 days ago | parent [-]

This doesn't follow at all - architects are much more aware of standards than you are implying. They are not just clueless artists saying "please make it look like this". It's insulting to compare them to vibe-coders.

Unrelated: The phrase is "flesh out". You "flush out" unwanted elements, like rodents.

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analogpixel 2 days ago | parent [-]

The analogy, not the 1 to 1 translation, is that the architects come up with the ideas and pass them off to the workers to implement.

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dwattttt 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You're still missing a gap in the middle, where someone knows standards & specifications like "this material in a building this tall will collapse when it gets over 12 stories".

	▲	tormeh 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		In big enough projects this is the job of a civil engineer. The architect vs engineer fight that ensues is widely memed. This is of course mostly an issue in one-off projects with ambitious architects.