Coding with an East Coast Vibe

I'm apparently doing it wrong. According to Andrej Karpathy, There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. You just talk to the AI and the app appears. That sounds way too California to me, too much prompt-and-pray. I'm not going to kick back, grab a kombucha, and tell my model to `Create me an SaaS app, bro`. What I do is more akin to `Dialectical Software Engineering`, but that rolls trippingly off the tongue like peanut butter, so I'm going to call it `East Coast Vibing`. I work with two LLMs to vibe code my application. I start with Gemini as my high-level `sparring partner` LLM. Its role is to be the `general contractor` for the project. I present an architecture to it and it takes an adversarial approach and challenges my ideas. It asks questions about the requirements and specific design decisions. It pokes holes in my design and makes sure that I have considered all of the…