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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Show threadMaarten Engels
@gerrymcgovern here’s the thing: a 2000x performance degradation might not matter when you still have to find your first customer. Finding that first customer 10x faster might.
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