Your agent is a translator

Honest disclosure: if you sat me down to write a hello world from scratch, Python is the only language where I wouldn’t freeze. And yet I ship applications weekly. The analogy that resolves the paradox:

Vibe coding is having a translator who speaks every language: Chinese, Russian, French, all of them. You just say “tell them this.” Your entire job is knowing what to say. ▸ 7:04

This reframes what the skill is. Nobody praises a diplomat for speaking through an interpreter; they judge whether the message was worth translating. The rule from entry 2-2 becomes a job description: the profession left standing is knowing what to say, precisely, completely, and first of all in your own mother tongue. If you can’t explain the feature to a person, no translator can save you ▸ 7:45.

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Practical notes from the field

Prompt in English when you can. These models trained overwhelmingly on English; even the programming languages themselves are English (print, let, if). Instructions in English simply land better ▸ 8:01. The mirror case proves the mechanism: a language with no written corpus can’t be prompted at all. No text, no translator.

And my brother’s objection, logged honestly: he says what I do with Jules isn’t even vibe coding, it’s managing a junior programmer, task in, task out ▸ 21:40. Maybe. Either way the junior speaks every language ever documented, and the manager’s only tool is clarity…