On Doing Things Manually

In my last post about KD-tree, I vibe-coded a JavaScript application to demonstrate visually, step-by-step, how to construct and query a KD-tree. Codex one-shotted it in a few minutes; I spent a few minutes linking it to the blog post but did not even take a look at the code. I’ve been using AI more and more both at work and for personal stuff but I also deliberately avoid using AI for specific…