I am actually going to go out on a limb and guess the opposite of this is true, and that on average vibecoders burn tokens less readily than veteran software engineers. I could list several reasons why I think this would be likely. No idea which of us is empirically right, though.
(With exceptions for what I can only call the "manic vibecoders" with like 10 simultaneous weird slopprojects they're spewing out at once. Generally with each project itself being something related to vibecoding. Steve Yegge being an example of a "manic vibecoder-actual programmer" hybrid.)
(With exceptions for what I can only call the "manic vibecoders" with like 10 simultaneous weird slopprojects they're spewing out at once. Generally with each project itself being something related to vibecoding. Steve Yegge being an example of a "manic vibecoder-actual programmer" hybrid.)