Ask HN: Will vibe coded spaghetti code lead to unmaintainable software?

Posted by roschdal on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:16AM
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Re:Ask HN: Will vibe coded spaghetti code lead to unmaintain... by thinkingemote on Sunday January 18, 2026 @07:23AM (#46667256)

Job security via code obscurity.

More careers to maintain and unentangle and rewrite such code bases.

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Re:Ask HN: Will vibe coded spaghetti code lead to unmaintain... by ale_jacques on Sunday January 18, 2026 @07:49AM (#46667419)

Yes. It already does.

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Re:Ask HN: Will vibe coded spaghetti code lead to unmaintain... by aristofun on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:34AM (#46667690)

I have a good news for you: the code is already unmaintanable.

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Re:Ask HN: Will vibe coded spaghetti code lead to unmaintain... by andyjohnson0 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:51AM (#46667808)

We may not be the ones doing the maintenance. An LLM may be able to maintain spaghetti code. A human, less so.

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