My hot take is that I personally feel 'flow' is already dangerously close to vibe coding, so I'm not surprised that vibe coding is seemingly taking off like it is. If you need to be buried in your subconscious to achieve any meaningful work then it's likely you've failed somewhere in your design or your baseline productivity/discipline.
Not to say that it has as many negative side effects as vibe coding or that context switching is 0 cost, but it's interesting how similar they feel in my mind even discarding the 'embrace the exponentials' rhetoric.
Not to say that it has as many negative side effects as vibe coding or that context switching is 0 cost, but it's interesting how similar they feel in my mind even discarding the 'embrace the exponentials' rhetoric.