Re:Vibe code is legacy code
by woooooo on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @08:22PM
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The 80s and 90s devs who built our current software infra were, on average, FAR less credentialed than today's juniors and mids who mostly don't understand what they're building on.
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The difference is we didn’t know any better back then. We do now.
Surprisingly, 80's and 90's developers were quite skilled low-level developers who knew very well all the ways things could go wrong. The difference was the stakes were not high then. The blast radius was maybe a hundred thousand people and the worst was they lost their own files. Now some AI-controlled process or apparatus could ruin everyone's credit and maybe even kill you and all your neighbors.
The whole comparison is apples to oranges. Products are massive nowadays and a whole lot more connected.