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We asked if vibecoding had fried people's brains

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Re: We asked if vibecoding had fried people's brains

#3
I tested 44% and got a soft rating but I haven't written a line of code (vibed or old fashioned stack overflow stringing) in about 7 years.

edit might be that I've not written a line of code in 6 years.. I couldn't even recognize the langauge I was being tested on. I thought it was javascript. Turns out it was python.

Re: We asked if vibecoding had fried people's brains

#4
Okay fair enough, you've been in this a while so I won't argue

The vibecoding thing is a good example of how easy it is to get the "it works" part of something but forget the "it's safe to ship" part. People vibecoding don't have the same level of rigor around edge cases and security that traditional coding does. Makes me wonder what's going to happen in the future at the rate things are going