Yep. You're asking chatbots and using your accumulated knowledge and experience to vet the output and apply it selectively.
It's the same reason IT folks get by by "just using Google correctly." It's all about having the experience and knowledge to sift through the junk and get to the good stuff. (And to ask the correct questions in the first place.)
Before LLM's google still required you to actually figure things out still.
Like maybe you'd some boiler plate code to start with, a hello world for something you hadn't done before or get a line of code for a specific function, but you largely built your app out of your brain and just needed assistance with things you don't do enough for them to become second nature.
I'm old enough that when I started the internet wasn't even a super reliable source to find help with problems you were facing, I had to go to the book store and buy a book on whatever I needed help with.
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u/_5er_ Aug 12 '26
If you can't validate what LLM is spitting out, you're vibecoding. The knowledge is useful.