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No wonder there are so many Insane Lisp Fans. Imagine you had Claude Code in 2006 and experimented with vibecoding but then Anthropic went out of business and everyone else was like "wow that's dumb whatever" for the next 20 years even as they started adopt, like, aider. You'd lose your mind!

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...but the flipside is that this kind of incredible capability to introspect, observe, and modify the program as it is running necessarily affects robustness. The system can enter invalid states because of hotpatch that got misapplied. Again, trading rigor for velocity. Very vibecoding-like.

(I don't think that that is a totally accurate analogy in terms of how things went down but I do think it explains the feelings Insane Lisp Fans often express)

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