Is coding "solved?" I've been using Fable and Grok to vibecode a library to improve text extraction for legal PDFs. (Which have things like line numbers in transcripts that messes up text extraction.) This is a simple, dumb problem that should be like killing a mouse with a nuke. But I got to "pretty good" with a few iterations of not looking at the code or design. The program works, pretty well. But the design and heuristics are only 80% of the way there. Now, the models are just "churning" on the existing design, making ad hoc changes struggling to get to the last 20%. It seems like I'm going to have to turn my brain back on and think about what I actually want to do, which I was trying to avoid.

It's better than writing assembly! But it still seems to be in the realm of "a new kind of tool" even for the actual coding part, without even caring about what the code looks like or security or anything like that.