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  • I think there is more nuance or spectrum than good or bad. Vibe is one extreme, but along the dial from traditional to pure vibe are degrees of involvement. I’d characterize the degrees something like:

    1. No AI, just elbow grease
    2. AI as just auto complete on steroids
    3. AI generating more complete change sets, but still from focused, more surgical specs, and still a human review on everything
    4. “Spec-driven development” where, as I see it, you’re engineering a multi-agent-role workflow to intersect different contexts and iterating to try to converge on carefully designed specs

    In 3 of those 4, the human is fundamentally the one owning the output, and AI is an accelerator and potentially an influence, kind of like pair programming. And even the SDD workflow can be a human-in-the-loop approach, although the more agents produce autonomously, the harder it might be for a human to be effective at reviewing the output.

    So I’ll agree that “use it or don’t” is a binary, but I’d just add that there’s still a spectrum of how it’s used.


  • Zipper is solid in a situation where an entire lane merges into another. There are different situations where it doesn’t make sense. I’m a big believer in zippering where it works, but then there’s the 6-lane highway where one exit lane is backing up into the through lanes. Then someone blows past that line in the other through lanes and cuts into the very front of the line. I’m sure some of those people are saying “zipper!” as they do it, but if everyone conventionalized a zipper point at the end of an exit lane, we would impede the through lanes, too. The point of the zipper is to smooth traffic flow and use the full capacity of the roadway; applying it broadly to highway lanes mixed with through traffic is antithetical.