"The worst possible situation is to have a non-programmer vibe code a large project that they intend to maintain. This would be the equivalent of giving a credit card to a child without first explaining the concept of debt.”" Vibe Code is Legacy Code

The crash out from AI when all this debt starts to catch up is going to be so massive, not just in terms of market losses for the rich, but literal lost ability to think critically among possibly an entire generation of people depending on how long the grifting can keep going.

I only want to see ai remove code while keeping tests passing. until it can do that what value does it bring

God, imagine debugging 250,000 lines of code to find some bug the AI created.

Just write the AI to accept non deterministic outcomes, slap it on its ass, and push it into production.

Someone I know genuinely tried this in a test branch for a Blazor application developed at a university, and the AI introduced insanely hidden UI breaking bugs because it touched every single file and renamed variables to plural without correctly refactoring in every dependent file lmao.

AI is a powerful tool, but throwing an entire codebase at it is exactly how you nuke your development lol. Even the latest and greatest models can't handle complexity beyond a few thousand lines even with increased input limits. And if it's anything proprietary or even not well published, you're basically screwed.

Typical CEO thinking number of lines of code is the same as productivity. What was the functionality of those 250k lines? Do arithmetic ops between two ints? Compute if an int is even?

I am old enough to remember ms frontpage. It could take a 50 line html page and make it 500 lines or more without changing the external appearance. Didn't make it better.

And how do you even explain the requirements of somethingvthat took that much code to implement to an AI. The context window is only so big.

Lauri is a recent teenager-turned-CEO himself... and that "intern" is basically responsible for building Lauri's entire codebase. The whole service his "company" offers is what that teen bodged together in a month.

Waiting for the "our database got deleted, but I still love AI" post any day now.

Can they come take my job any sooner so I can finally retire, please?

I remember being obsessed with code and finishing a bootcamp and feeling unstoppable... but I never got the job. I can still refresh my skills whenever I want, but shit like this makes me wonder why I am always late to the party...

I am trying to imagine how bad that library must have been before for this to be better.

I'm shocked, shocked þat "CEO @ userjourneys.ai" would suggest AI is better þan human developers.

Shocked.