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/
In addition to the often abysmal quality, there's also a big misunderstanding about what the role of the software engineer is in a project. It's not to produce code, but to vouch that the software created is fit for purpose. "Tests pass" can ever be only a tiny part of that.
Letting people use generated code you did not comb through and verify, shows that you have no respect for those people.
Thread on #VibeCoding In my 25 years of professional software engineering, I've written big chunks of code in about ten programming languages, and smaller bits with five more. Still, if I was tasked to build software with OCaml – a language I only know from Wikipedia – I'd need to take a long hiatus to learn OCaml before I could let anyone use a single line of code I've written in it. Why? Because software engineering is so much more than generating lines of code. 1/6
Gerry McGovern
Timo Tiuraniemi