Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled

I know. As if what the world needed was yet another blogpost about LLMs and AI tech. Yet there is a pile of things which have been on my mind, and I haven't seen them laid out elsewhere in the way I'm going to write them, and so here we go.I still don't use genAI to write my articles, fwiw. Here or anywhere else. These rambly words are my own.The tower tiltsI read The Tower Keeps Rising recently, and it has stuck in my mind.The piece is an observation, and according to Armin on lobste.rs, it is not an advocacy for the state of affairs (though by running a vibecoding company, Armin is part of advancing this direction):For context: I'm the author. I intentionally did not make a judgement if this is a good or bad thing, or if this is going to continue working. It's primarily an observation that with agents you can continue to make progress even when people on the team maneuvered themselves into situations where previously they would have needed to talk to each other.The summary of…