The more complex my client has gotten, the more "vibe-coding" becomes "directed typing" because the issues become increasingly obscure and intractable, so I have to explain how to do everything in detail and search through the codebase, myself.

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i think of the LLM mainly as a smart search and replace system, that can copypasta from anywhere, refactor the copypasta according to proper grammar and syntax. 99% of what any app needs to do, has already been done. that 1% takes almost all of the dev time now, and is where you get to be the brain, because you are minting a new model.