Being, Doing, Having: Why 50 Years of Senior Craft Lives in Context, Not Code
"Vibe coding fails because the requests are just a demand to 'Have' without the proper 'Be'." "Teaching is about relating. You need to understand their pains before you can explain the path to remove that." — Randal L. Schwartz "Comedy is all about the set up and the punch. I guess teaching, or guiding an LLM, is also that." — Randal L. Schwartz 🗺️ Reader's Key (Where to Find These References) :…
The article explains that vibe coding fails because it demands to have a result without establishing the proper mindset or "be" first. The author uses an analogy comparing this to the Context-Process-Content model, which they claim explains the failure of vibe coding. By demanding the result at the beginning of a process without setting the proper context and taking committed actions, the author argues that an LLM will produce a counterfeit result, or "bad actor" output, rather than a correct one.
The article also references various examples, such as Makefiles and speech acts, to illustrate how this context-process-content model can be applied to improve the coding process.
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