For many tasks vibe coding is so much slower and more expensive. Its like instructing and intern to do something and they keep getting it slightly wrong so you have to constantly tweak it. You also can’t get into flow state doing this.

For random scripts and one off demos it’s great though. I vibe coded a python script for pulling down a podcast rss and displayed all the entries. Boring xml parsing and plumbing i didn’t want to write and didn’t care of code quality.

Coding on notedeck with cursor hasn’t been super productive, but its nice for one off things like getting it to suggest different ways of coding a small part of the code. It’s a really nice interface for adding code-related context to the prompt and applying diffs from LLM output.