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Re:Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? by jamiecode on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:49PM (#47170321)
The failure mode split nobody's naming: Claude gets regexes right about 95% of the time, which is annoying but catchable. Gets auth logic or state management right 95% of the time and you've got silent data corruption showing up 3 months later on an edge case nobody tested.

Vibe coders treating those as the same category is what actually worries me. Even in regular software there's a feedback mechanism - unit tests go red, CI breaks. Vibe coding skips that too. You get working code that passes the happy path and nothing that tells you which 5% failure rate is the dangerous one. That judgment about problem category severity is the thing that's hard to develop without breaking things first.

Re:Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? by jlundberg on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:02PM (#47170506)
This is an intresting take and the ”tooling” around pure llm-based code generation is what really matters.

AFAIK Replit and Claude code has way to reduce the rate of these kind of errors, but I havn’t deep dived into how.

Re:Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? by dnautics on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:10PM (#47170609)
> you've got silent data corruption showing up 3 months later on an edge case nobody tested

I mean this happens in normal development?

Re:Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? by teaearlgraycold on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:20PM (#47170749)
A fault in a regex could be really bad news depending on where it’s used.