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I'm not vibe coding anything, but I think about this with respect to writing: people are able to increase their output with more words, more research, more details, more arguments, and more ideas. So there's lots more writing out there now.
But this doesn't mean there's much more thinking.
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It's the volume of noise, or better said, spam that's increasing. It's becoming harder to zero in on substance, like what you yourself just provided here by identifying this.
For myself, I am not increasing the pace of anything whatsoever, nor am I following along the brand new bandwagon. I am, if anything, twice as protective of my time and attention now in 2026 as I was in 2025.
p.s. Automobile RPMs have a red zone for a reason.
Imagine knowing what you know now about Bitcoin and you get transported back to 2010, but you're suffering from locked in syndrome
And you watch the shitcoinisation spread out, mming to your loved ones as they pat you on your head
P.S. where we're going we don't need rpm's we need npm's
I saw that too, wherever it was. But I'm less worried about burnout than just thinking. I don't think human minds are very good at doing things fast. Speed frequently leads to dumb decisions. Now that we have tools that let us build things much faster, we might build ourselves into very ugly lives.
Unless something comes along thats pivots the other way
I remember in the 80s car technology was improving and the comedians were predicting we'd all be driving home from work at 700mph
The world seemed to be speeding up, then net zero and climate change came along
I dont know about your ends but where im from it's all slow speed limits and emission zones
The car is not wanted anymore
The pace of things does feel like its increasing. Almost as though you are missing out if you aren't participating in this frantic pace.
I'm not vibe coding anything, but I think about this with respect to writing: people are able to increase their output with more words, more research, more details, more arguments, and more ideas. So there's lots more writing out there now.
But this doesn't mean there's much more thinking.
I feel the pressure we are all feeling now to hurry and rush and get more stuff out there, but I've been trying to focus on writing things that still require me to think deeply...and which hopefully inspire reflection and thought in the people who read what I write.
I think there are going to be lots of great projects that people produce with agents, but I hope we don't come to worship speed so much that we forget the awful slowness of thinking deeply.