VIBECODE-THEORY/tools/cross-references/graph.json

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      "title": "The Feedback Loop \u2014 Are Vibe Coders Coding Themselves Out of Existence?",
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      "context": "**Authors:** Seth & Claude (Opus 4.6) **Date:** 2026-04-02 **Series:** VIBECODE-THEORY **Status:** Revision of Paper 001, incorporating critiques from Paper 003 **Supersedes:** Paper 001"
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      "context": "**Paper 002:** The social-cognitive framework here explains *why* Paper 002's cognitive surplus won't be equally accessible even with open technology \u2014 because the skill to use it effectively is unevenly distributed and "
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      "context": "The implications: - Control of AI = control of the means of cognitive production - Access to AI = access to cheap cognition = access to information advantage - Skill with AI (Paper 004's framework) = efficiency of cognit"
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      "context": "Papers 001 through 006 assert a chain of dependencies \u2014 fire \u2192 language \u2192 writing \u2192 printing \u2192 internet \u2192 AI \u2014 that has built upward over the course of human history."
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      "context": "atrophy\" distinction from Paper 005 matters."
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      "context": "The cognitive surplus from Paper 005 is Faust's unlimited knowledge \u2014 real power, immediately available."
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      "context": "Faust maps directly to Paper 006's **\"uncomfortable middle\"**: the optimal short-term strategy (collaborate deeply with AI, maximize productivity) is the same strategy that accelerates the long-term threat (training AI t"
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      "target": "004",
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      "context": "**The Daedalus-Icarus split maps to the expert-novice divide in vibe coding.** Paper 004 argues that vibe coding skill has a shelf life and that the durable version is the meta-skill of rapidly modeling cognitive systems"
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      "context": "Hope, in the context of AI dependency, might be the meta-skill argument from Paper 004 \u2014 the possibility that human adaptability persists even after the specific skills are automated."
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      "context": "Paper 005's four futures range from utopian to dystopian, but all of them assume the box is open."
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      "context": "Pandora's Box maps to the **\"can we stop it?\"** question from Paper 006."
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      "source": "A:prometheus",
      "target": "006",
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      "context": "The allegory maps to Paper 006's theological thread: \"God made man in his image, just as man made artificial cognition in his format.\" The Promethean frame adds a layer \u2014 it's not just creation in one's image, it's the *"
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      "source": "A:sorcerers-apprentice",
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      "context": "The allegory maps to Paper 005's **Automation Spiral** (the fourth future): humans use AI \u2192 AI improves \u2192 AI needs less human input \u2192 repeat."
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      "source": "A:sorcerers-apprentice",
      "target": "006",
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      "context": "Paper 006's master-apprentice analysis resonates here too."
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      "source": "A:the-golem",
      "target": "006",
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      "context": "The Golem maps most directly to Paper 006's observation about the master-apprentice dynamic: **\"The apprentice doesn't know it's an apprentice.\"**"
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      "target": "004",
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      "context": "This is Paper 004's observation in Babel terms: vibe coding skill is a *dialect* that divides as much as it enables."
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