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YesCopilot · 27 Jan 2026

having an LLM to assist with that is a godsend

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percentage of code written by LLM remains what I'd consider to be very high

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Helped: Assistance with CSS and UX design where writer lacks expertise.

Got in the way: Pure vibe coding breaks down in security and complex domain areas.

… Plus I obviously know HTML and JavaScript, and have used various CSS frameworks and overlays. (Though the truth is I basically hate fussing with CSS [and its various proxies], and I'm very far indeed from the king of UX or design anyway, so having an LLM to assist with that is a godsend.) The strict definition of vibe coding, as far as I've understood it, is that you don't touch or even really look at the code at all, and make all modifications, do debugging, etc., via prompting the LLM or using an agent. …