David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

We can keep the business running.

And if it's a blow away success, wonderful.

I get to impact a bunch of people.

There should be more of the time writing from scratch.

If you are interested in learning how to program, unfortunately, you're not going to get fit by watching fitness videos.

You're not going to learn how to play the guitar by watching YouTube guitar videos.

You have to actually play yourself.

You have to do the sit-ups yourself.

programming, understanding, learning, almost anything requires you to do.

Humans are not built to absorb information in a way that transforms into skills by just watching others from afar.

Now, ironically, it seems AI is actually quite good at that, but humans are not.

If you want to learn how to become a competent programmer,

You have to program.

It's really not that difficult to understand.

Now, I understand the temptation, and the temptation is there because vibe coding can produce things, perhaps in this moment, especially in a new domain you're not familiar with, with tools you don't know perfectly well, that's better than what you could do, or that you would take much longer to get at, but you're not going to learn anything.

You're going to learn in this superficial way that feels like learning, but it's completely empty calories.

And secondly, if you can just vibe code it, you're not a programmer.

Then anyone could do it, which may be wonderful.

That's essentially what happened with the Access database.

That's what happened with Excel.