Mastodawn

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

The Register

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arclight 3d ago

@gerrymcgovern You love to see it:
"Insurers, he said, are already lobbying state-level insurance regulators to win a carve-out in business insurance liability policies so they are not obligated to cover AI-related workflows. "That kills the whole system," Deeks said."

Someone will be left holding the bag when slop kills someone, bankrupts a business, or causes serious damage. Insurers will make sure it isn't them.

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Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

@arclight @rayckeith @gerrymcgovern when Insurers see risk, pay attention.