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stingraycharlesyesterday at 3:32 PM1 replyview on HN

I genuinely think people on HN are having the misconception that vibe coding == don’t care about (the quality of) the code.

I like to think it’s the same as delegating implementation to someone else.


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matthewkayinyesterday at 7:38 PM

Except there are literally people on this thread saying that this is proof that code quality doesn't matter and that we all need to "wake up". It's the same as the people saying that spec driven development is the way of the future and that engineers should be focusing on the spec and not even looking at the code.

If you use LLMs and you do care about code quality, then great. But remember that the term vibe coding as it was coined originally meant blindly accepting coding agent suggestions without even reviewing the diffs.

Many of the people aggressively pushing AI use in code are doing so because they care more about delivery products quickly then they do about the software's performance, security, and long-term maintainability. This is why many of us are pushing back against the technology.

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