I spent 40 hours vibe coding after 40 years of traditional programming

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After 40 years of coding (starting with 8-bit assembly in the 80s), I decided to test the "vibe coding" paradigm everyone's talking about. I spent 2 weeks developing a Python project entirely through conversation with AI assistants - no direct code writing, just English instructions to Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini.Yes, the 10x productivity claims have some truth - but with serious caveats. The AI assistants made both brilliant architectural decisions and bizarre errors. They proved theorems for me in 30 seconds that would've taken me hours, yet also confused left with right in a simple data structure.Still: this isn't the death of programming, nor the advent of English-as-a-6th-generation-progr

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Website: marcobenedetti.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-as-a-coding-veteran