Human in the Middle
This essay argues that "AI can't create anything new" misses the point, because real creation happens in the loop, when a person iterates, pushes back, and refines. It takes the genuine critiques of vibe coding (security flaws, low trust in output) seriously, but shows these failures cluster where the human left the loop rather than stayed in it. It also engages the stronger philosophical version of the sceptical claim, that only conjecture and criticism grow knowledge, and argues the human supplies exactly that step. It closes by acknowledging harder open questions, around labour and eroding taste, while holding that the flat claim answers a question nobody serious is really asking.
