What is lost to vibes

LLMs expand human output, but not necessarily human understanding.

Without a functional epistemic loop (acting, observing, refining judgment, building taste), the increase in bandwidth amounts to more noise.

When it comes to writing software, this feedback often emerges from building itself. We build to know the problem; we build to examine the nuance; we build to see the gap between model and reality. Homo faber.

When we build without this feedback mechanism, what we create expands like a gas: bound not by the shape of the problem, but by our means (capital, legality, and calcified naivety).

Where is the expanded human understanding? Judgment? Taste? The moments where the delta is in the human, not in the volume or nature of slop?

— sophia