Manual effort used to be a quality signal
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the manual nature of all those things contributed something to the overall quality of the output.
Episode 264: Podcast Plebicide (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:50:17 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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When building took real work, the effort itself signaled quality. A DJ in Cleveland who loved Rush and kept playing them put the band on the map, and code used to work the same way. Now, with dozens of vibe-coded clones of the same tool (some possibly malicious), there's no signal to tell which one to trust.