Sometimes I start "battles" to convince "vibe coding devs" to actually learn something. Sometimes I succeed (especially with the younger ones), other times I don't (especially with the less young ones, who became devs precisely "thanks" to vibe coding).

What holds them back is often practical: they say things move so fast that stopping to learn something means "wasting time", since whatever they learn will be outdated very quickly anyway.

Maybe we've moved too fast and we're still moving too fast. I'm seeing worrying things, like stable projects implemented in Go that are "using AI" to progressively rewrite everything in Rust. Why?

Still, the fact remains that at least the basics should be there. To drive a car, even with semi-autonomous driving systems, you still need a license. So why isn't this considered necessary when writing the code for the system that will handle my sensitive data? Not a license, clearly. But, at least, some basic knowledge.

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