> I never wanted a product that did the thing, I really just wanted to do the thing.
Would you vibe code your daily driver car's ECU or a high-frequency trading application to use for your 401k? If you were to do these things (more power to you), I rather suspect you'd still do a whole lot of research and critical thinking beforehand, which sort of obviates the "vibes".
It is hard to imagine trusting an AI that much. But plenty of things happening today would've been hard to imagine by the people who came before. So yeah, let's make that assumption.
At that point, I don't think we'd be using the AI to code something and then switch to a mode where we're now using the recently-coded thing.
We'd just ask the the car to go, and it would happen. Then we'd suggest a strategy for making trades, and that would happen. If the AI decided to write some code and fork a subprocess along the way... that would be an detail that we'd be unaware of.
Would you vibe code your daily driver car's ECU or a high-frequency trading application to use for your 401k? If you were to do these things (more power to you), I rather suspect you'd still do a whole lot of research and critical thinking beforehand, which sort of obviates the "vibes".