Sweet irony.
@Gregor Ojstersek, please allow me to share the smirk.
Feeling confident you understand the Dunning-Kruger effect? Because if you do, you don’t. You’re falling for it.
Given the incomplete information in your repost, you should at least have considered the opposite possibility. Instead, you seem to fill in the gaps with what is most likely confirmation bias-induced projection.
The presented archetype, the “vibe coder”, may very well be under the impression that building multiple AI apps means they possess the skills and competence of a traditionally trained developer. In that case, yes, that would be illusionary competence, and therefore a plausible example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
However, one cannot rule out that the vibe coder actually has a very good understanding of their own competence.
Their mistake here may not be self-overestimation. It may be an erroneous assumption, or a failing theory of mind, in regard to the hiring party’s understanding of what professional and creative qualities are important in the nearby future.
And as the required-skills debate is open-ended, undecided, and not truly knowable, one also has to leave open the possibility that the Dunning-Kruger effect here actually lies with the hiring party.
They think they know what they need. And who knows, they might be wrong.
The reason for their bias could very well be accumulated competence in a field that is rapidly changing. Their understanding of the pressure that selects for what arbitrary features are of the winning kind may already be outdated.
So yes, this may be Dunning-Kruger.
But your post does not establish where.
PS: It’s “its”, not “it’s”. But I can appreciate the tell that you didn’t use AI to draft ur post.
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