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Re:What is vibe coding? How creators are building software w... by GuinansEyebrows on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:03AM (#43219890)
I kinda feel like this attitude, like “free market capitalism”, allows more bad things to happen with the potential for some unseen/immeasurable force to “correct” the environment once the Bad Thing is recognized and rationally dealt with. But there are probably better ways to avoid Bad Things that require only a little additional forethought, planning, and deciding ahead of time what sorts of things we’d like to avoid (oh no, regulation!).
Re:What is vibe coding? How creators are building software w... by itishappy on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:29AM (#43220208)
Do we care? Is the podcast script timer from the article a Bad Thing? Are people actually hiring vibe coders for critical infrastructure?

I write really bad Haskell code sometimes without any AI assistance. Am I doing a Bad Thing when I create my own tools?

What are you intending to regulate here?

Re:What is vibe coding? How creators are building software w... by GuinansEyebrows on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:28AM (#43220898)
> Are people actually hiring vibe coders for critical infrastructure?

It appears to be happening right now in the US federal government.

Re:What is vibe coding? How creators are building software w... by itishappy on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:33AM (#43220945)
To be clear, you're saying that people with no ability to reason about code are currently in a position to push unreviewed code into critical government infrastructure?

Do you have an example?