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Vibe code is legacy code

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Re: Vibe code is legacy code

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>One those vulnerabilities are found, the hackers will pounce ...and work to exploit your code to their own benefit. They don't do this just so that they can refund your customers.

I mean, I can see refunding their customers just for the lols.

From the customers' perspective sounds ethical. The product was broken or extremely cheap quality, and not what it seemed to be originally when you decided to purchase... Is this black or white? ;p

Re: Vibe code is legacy code

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A story about a non-technical friend: friend vibe coded a SaaS last year and started generating revenue with almost no marketing; all word of mouth and inbound in a niche industry. Used Replit and Supabase to build the thing; I am still really impressed by what he was able to do given how complex the app ended up becoming as he interacted with customers. What I think happened: there are two incumbents in this space t…

The fact your friend is suffering no consequences and is able to just carry on is exactly what is wrong with this industry. In a perfect world the creation of software would have been locked down like other engineering fields, with developers and companies suffering legal consequences for exposing customer information.

Imagine vibe coding spreads to civil engineering and people start building bridges this way. Have AI design it and then probably 3D print it on location.

> legal consequences for exposing customer information.

Still a good idea. Also without taking vibe coding into account. Far too many tech companies are way too sloppy with customer data. Often intentionally so.

Re: Vibe code is legacy code

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't actually see the difference. If someone writes the code and understands it but then becomes unavailable, what's the practical difference with no one having understood it?

One of the implementations underwent analysis.

Surely they both go through that before being merged? If not then I think the the issue is somewhere other than I'd being suggested.
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