> The problem is that vibe coding makes it possible to build a substantial solution before learning enough about the problem to recognise that a much better solution exists.

This example and Bend aside, I find this to be the biggest struggle with the perceived intelligence we have today. It's great at producing something that works, but it is not great at calling you out when you don't know what you don't know.

It's not able to educate and course correct you unless you have great self awareness and discipline.

That said, I think this goes for everything, it's easy to fall into this trap because it is very human. We simply don't know what we don't know, so it's not uncommon to revisit an old solution only to be enlightened that there is now new information that allows you to replace it with something much better.

I don't think anything here is new or changed, if anything changed is really just the rate that we experience this. LLMs make it easier and faster for the feedback cycle to happen.

Now back to Bend, I think putting your work out there and being unapologetic about it, open source even, and willing to take feedback, will go a long way.

I am more worried about the many closed source implementations of LLM built products that are being sold and people are depending upon that don't get this great criticism from many different thinking heads.

Agree with everything you say here.

> I don't think anything here is new or changed

I would argue it's a little new though. I used to write dumb little programs all the time that explored an idea which was probably bad, and in that exploration I often found that there was a better way to do it, or that I didn't know as much as I thought I did, or that another thing already existed that was much better considered than my half baked idea, etc. But there was learning that happened there, so the process was still valuable. Now you can get a working bad idea without learning anything, there is full conservation of ignorance, but a full dopamine hit from "i made this thing". I guess you could argue it's just everything happening at a faster rate, but it feels different to me, and it is pretty eerie.

Agreed. Anyone can share insights into how to do it better?

How can we "course correct" with "self-awareness and discipline"?

I fully agree with this quote, it really crystallized something i felt but couldn’t put into words.