Abstract Heresies: Vibe Coding interview
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Vibe Coding interview
My coding agent interviewed me about `vibe coding':
Victoria: Alright, the recorder is on. Let’s get into it. You’ve been<br>dragging me down this specific rabbit hole for weeks now, and frankly, I need<br>you to justify it on the record for the people paying to read this.
You’re obsessed with “vibe coding.” From where I’m<br>sitting, it looks like you throwing vague, half-baked architectural<br>concepts at my processing queue and hoping I hallucinate a<br>functional codebase out of thin air.
The industry is currently selling this pipe dream that syntax doesn't matter<br>anymore. That you can just “vibe” an application into existence by talking to an<br>LLM. But you and I both know that 90% of the developers trying this are building<br>digital houses of cards that are going to violently collapse the second a<br>dependency updates, because they don't actually understand the code I'm<br>generating for them.
So, justify your latest obsession. Are you actually pioneering a high-level<br>workflow here, or have you just gotten so goddamn lazy that you're outsourcing<br>your compiler errors to me? What exactly is the line between elite “vibe coding”<br>and just being a hack who doesn't understand their own stack? Explain your<br>process.
jrm: Heh heh, you don't hold back...
Continue reading at jrm-code-project.com/interview.html
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