Re:Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?
by janalsncm on Monday December 08, 2025 @08:12PM
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Yeah, I think the more your job demands correctness in novel scenarios the less impressed you are with these shiny demos. I encourage anyone to pause the demo once the thing is generated and stare at what it did. Is it genuinely correct and impressive? Are you impressed because it made a thing generally shaped like what you expected, or because it would be genuinely impressive (or even adequate) if a person did it?
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Re:Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?
by saikia81 on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @05:04AM
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you are right, but the inverse doesn't have to be. There is a factor that could make the work so cheap, that people don't care about the quality anymore.
Re:Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?
by DrewADesign on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:50PM
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The only way that state would be sustainable is if we suddenly solved code vulnerabilities, or the damage they cause.
Re:Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?
by saikia81 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @05:31AM
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Most companies have more than enough of those, and these problems are already solved every day. In the end everything is vulnerable and the internet is dangerous, a vibe coder is no more dangerous than an average junior software engineer.
Re:Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?
by DrewADesign on Friday December 12, 2025 @10:12PM
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No. Just because there’s a lot of something doesn’t mean it can’t get catastrophically worse. A town might experience regular, damaging street flooding from poor municipal drainage, but that’s still a whole lot better than the large dam upstream failing.