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First time vibe coding yesterday (swift in cursor).

Very cool experience and moved ahead incredibly fast compared to the old days of reading the docs, and moving up the stack from "hello world" when working with new languages.

I don't think all devs are cooked yet, but this has already passed the level of the average "copy paste stack overflow without caring" dev.

What I'm enjoying:
1. Being able to spend more time in product land, versus figuring out syntax.

2. Reducing the barrier to porting my engineering skills to a different language. I think LLMs will be an awesome supporter for the mobility of experienced engineering talent between language ecosystems.

3. Setting up boilerplate and screens way faster, so I can focus on iterations

Speedbumps:
1. Architecture. Getting the AI to follow rules such as decomposing screens into different files, and explain certain design decisions it makes.

2. Verbosity. Feels like too much written some times. I generally have to prompt for simplicity.