Feb. 12, 2026

Vibe coding/engineering cultivates high-level thinking and a tendency to resist focusing on concrete details. It favors task completion over internalized understanding. The sense of FOMO motivates people to think about what’s next instead of asking why. With the purchased computing power, tokens, or GPUs, we have to keep the machine busy. We need to plan task after task for the AI to work on. Taking time to think deeply about something becomes a luxury, aligning with the common human nature to avoid complexity. We are becoming more and more productive, accomplishing more tasks in the same amount of time. But are we really working on important things? Being productive is never an end itself.