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The joke contrasts how effortless and fun AI-assisted “vibe coding” can feel when you’re rapidly building something from prompts, with the much less glamorous reality of debugging the resulting code afterward.Creating feels fast and exciting; fixing the unexpected bugs, edge cases, and messy logic can leave you looking completely worn out.

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