It really doesn’t matter anymore. I’m saying this as a person who used to care about it. It does what it’s generally supposed to do, it has users. Two things that matter at this day and age.

Honestly when using it, it feels vibe coded to the bone, together with the matching weird UI footgun quirks

It'd dogfooding the entire concept of vibe coding and honestly, that is a good thing. Obviously they care about that stuff, but if your ethos is "always vibe code" then a lot of the fixes to it become model & prompting changes to get the thing to act like a better coder / agent / sysadmin / whatever.

Can you give an example? Looks fairly decent to me

Nothing a couple /simplify's can't take care of.

It's impressive how fast vibe coders seem to flip-flop between "AI can write better code than you, there's no reason to write code yourself anymore; if you do, you're stuck in the past" and "AI writes bad code but I don't care about quality and neither should you; if you care, you're stuck in the past".

I hope this leak can at least help silence the former. If you're going to flood the world with slop, at least own up to it.

Code quality no longer carries the same weight as it did pre LLMs. It used to matter becuase humans were the ones reading/writing it so you had to optimize for readability and maintainability. But these days what matters is the AI can work with it and you can reliably test it. Obviously you don’t want code quality to go totally down the drain, but there is a fine balance.

Optimize for consistency and a well thought out architecture, but let the gnarly looking function remain a gnarly function until it breaks and has to be refactored. Treat the functions as black boxes.

Personally the only time I open my IDE to look at code, it’s because I’m looking at something mission critical or very nuanced. For the remainder I trust my agent to deliver acceptable results.