alt Hacker News> LLMs when employed in a manner on the extreme end of the vibe coding spectrum are automating every stage of the process
And when you have a backhoe, you can skip a lot of those things, too. It's bad, sure.. but so is skipping a lot of the important parts when using AI.
The backhoe is one of the best labor-saving inventions we see in regular life. It can do the work of 30 or more men with ease. It's a very good tool.
(It's also a fantastic for finding the buried fiber optic cable that nobody was looking for, but that's a different kind of discussion.)