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/
@gerrymcgovern there's so much good stuff in there
> Lines of code, number of [pull requests], these are liabilities. These are not measures of engineering excellence."
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That would require taking full responsibility for the code, moving away from today's agentic coding back to using LLMs as an assistant only.
And to make that term less vague, I'm picturing just consulting the chat interface on an as needed basis, allowing only the most mundane self contained function commits maybe, that's it.
@orchun @matthewskelton @gerrymcgovern the institutional pressures are seemingly insurmountable in many cases. I myself worked somewhere where they counted token usage and treated that as an important input in perf review. Managers frequently said "you should use ai more." This is not uncommon. Many tens of thousands of jobs have been destroyed with "ai" as the putative cause.
Silicon Valley may have to burn to the ground before we can change directions on this
@autonomousapps @orchun @matthewskelton @gerrymcgovern
We need to talk about your use of tokens
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