“No Duh,” say senior developers everywhere.
The article explains that vibe code often is close, but not quite, functional, requiring developers to go in and find where the problems are - resulting in a net slowdown of development rather than productivity gains.
For most large projects, writing the code is the easy part anyway.
Writing new code is easier than editing someone else’s code but editing a portion is still better than writing the entire program again from start to end.
Then there is LLMs which force you to edit the entire thing from start to end.