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Re:Vibe code is legacy code by rsynnott on Thursday July 31, 2025 @05:12AM (#44743812)
Imagine these two scenarios:

Your spouse dies in surgery. The highly experienced surgeon made a mistake, because, realistically, everyone makes mistakes sometimes.

Your spouse dies in surgery. The hospital handed a passing five year old a scalpel to see what would happen.

There's a clear difference; neither are _great_, but someone's probably going to jail for the second one.

In real, regulated professions, no-one's expecting absolute perfection, but you're not allowed to be negligent. Of course, 'software engineer' is (generally) _not_ a real, regulated profession. And vibe-coding idiot 'founder' certainly isn't.

Re:Vibe code is legacy code by Arrowmaster on Friday August 01, 2025 @05:51PM (#44762864)
There is a word for this, negligence. We need to start considering these failures to secure user data as criminal negligence.