PC Gamer: After this game dev shared her prototype online, it took less than 5 hours for someone to post their vibecoded knockoff. “Shameless videogame knockoffs are a tale as old as time, of course; once something crosses a critical threshold of attention, it’s inevitable that clones will flood the iOS app store soon afterwards in a mad rush to capitalize on the zeitgeist. … But [Freya] […]

University of Waterloo: Top AI coding tools make mistakes one in four times. “Even the most advanced models achieved only about 75 per cent accuracy in the tests, while open-source models performed closer to 65 per cent. The study evaluated 11 LLM models across 18 structured output formats and 44 tasks designed to assess how reliably the systems followed structured rules.”

The Guardian: Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work. “Lisa, a supply chain engineer who has worked at Amazon for over a decade, says that AI tools at work have been helpful to her only in about one in every three attempts. And even then, she often finds issues and has to consult with colleagues to verify and correct their results, which takes up more […]

Jan’s Development Microblog: Why is ChatGPT so dumb most of the time?. “In this blog post I will share my experience with ChatGPT. It went totally south again. ChatGPT can’t answer questions correct and only goes in circles. The last few months, I asked ChatGPT some questions about HTML or CSS. Most of the answers were often wrong or incomplete, and sometimes completely useless. From time to […]

Pinch of Intelligence: Two months as a vibe coder. “The last two months my work completely changed. My job changed from thinking long and hard about problems and coming up with the best few code to solve this, to full-on talking in English to my computer begging it to produce better code. In this blog I am sharing my observations and feelings in this brave new world.”

TechCrunch: For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing. “Earlier this month, developer Mitchell Hashimoto launched a system that would limit GitHub contributions to ‘vouched’ users, effectively closing the open-door policy for open source software. As Hashimoto put it in the announcement, ‘AI eliminated the natural barrier to entry that let OSS projects trust by default.'”

32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital

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Ars Technica: 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents. “Since November, I have used Claude Code and Claude Opus 4.5 through a personal Claude Max account to extensively experiment with AI-assisted software development (I have also used OpenAI’s Codex in a similar way, though not as frequently). Fifty projects later, I’ll be frank: I have not had this much fun with […]

Garbage Day: Am I too stupid to vibe code?. “Vibe coding, like every new trend coming out of Silicon Valley, turns this process — the entire act of creativity, itself — into a slot machine. One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won’t understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you’ve done, but maybe you’ll have […]

ZDNet: I tried vibe coding an app as a beginner – here’s what Cursor and Replit taught me. “Startups such as Cursor, Replit, Lovable Labs, Harness, Windsurf, Augment Code, All Hands AI, and Microsoft, with its Visual Studio with GitHub Co-pilot, all offer programs that can drastically reduce the hand-coding humans need to do. And so I wondered: Could a newbie like me, with limited programming […]