I too have probably been programming longer than most people here, and I'll vibe code on occasion for your #2 reason. (Recently I needed to take an OpenAPI spec file and transform/reduce it in some mechanical ways; didn't feel like writing the code for it, didn't care if it was maintainable, and it was easily verifiably correct after a quick manual skim of its output.)
I don't think #1 is a good place to vibe code; if it's code that I'll have to maintain, I want to understand it. In that case I'll sometimes use an LLM to write code incrementally in the new framework, but I'll be reading every line of it and using the LLM's work to help me understand and learn how it works.
A utility like pyscn that determines code quality wouldn't be useful for me with #1: even in an unfamiliar framework, I'm perfectly capable judging code quality on my own, and I still need and want to examine the generated code anyway.
(I'm assuming we're using what I think is the most reasonable definition of "vibe coding": having an LLM do the work, and -- critically -- not inspecting or reviewing the LLM's output.)
I was using the definition of “let the LLM take the lead in writing the code, but review it afterwards“ so I don’t think our opinions are in conflict.
I think of coding agents as “talented junior engineers with no fatigue, but sometimes questionable judgment.”