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Re:The cult of vibe coding is insane by whatisthiseven on Monday April 06, 2026 @06:31PM (#47668211)
> I suspect if people saw the handwritten code

Somehow, everyone has forgotten the terrible code quality that existed prior to 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZQGRATlwA

Like, come on. Software has been shit for decades. AI hasn't observably reduced the quality of software I use everyday in a way that is meaningfully separable from normal incidents in the past.

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Re:The cult of vibe coding is insane by 0xDEAFBEAD on Monday April 06, 2026 @06:33PM (#47668242)
>AI hasn't observably reduced the quality of software I use everyday in a way that is meaningfully separable from normal incidents in the past.

I have noticed a spike in web apps exhibiting random failures and glitchy behavior over the past few months.

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Re:The cult of vibe coding is insane by thesz on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:13AM (#47675718) 

  > AI hasn't observably reduced the quality of software I use everyday in a way that is meaningfully separable from normal incidents in the past.
Most probably, you are not looking into that well enough.

Average duration for AWS outages [2] was 1.5 hours per outage, 38 hours total. Most recent AWS outage in 2026 [1] downed AWS for 13 hours, a third of 38 hours spanning an year before, and was caused by AWS LLM coding tool.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/20/amazon-cl...

[2] https://www.cherryservers.com/blog/cloud-outages

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