Gerry McGovernMar 17

The hidden beauty of vibe coding

"It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless."

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

interview: Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess

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@gerrymcgovern message from management: I didn’t read your test report, but our AI assistant told us we should fire all but one software engineer and push to prod, whatever that means. Let us know how it goes, we’ll be at the money burning party our AI assistant scheduled for us.
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