alt Hacker NewsEveryone asking was this vibe coded should calm down. Instead we should just have automated ways to audit the code to see if it’s secure, see if it’s going to steal our keys, etc.
If it provides value who cares?
I mean we could read the code to see if it does anything nefarious. Or have a bought do a check or checks.
But asking every time there’s a show HN is it vibe coded is such gatekeeping elitest nonsense it makes me angry.
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I do. I care. And there are dozens of us.
Lots of infected programs provide value. It has nothing to do with being or not being infected.
If a project was vibecoded in a weekend - there are less chances that it will still be maintained in a, say, year or two.
There's probably value in a web extension that uses a small embedded LLM to filter out comments that complain about literally any AI that's used in the submission.
To make it really funny, that extension should be vibe coded.
Seriously though, it should just be against HN guidelines. It's annoying to see that 90% of the comments are just people fighting over vibe coding on a completely unrelated topic. On this submission? There's only 1 (one) on-topic comment.
You are trying to rationalize with people who hold irrational beliefs. It won't work because their objections aren't based on reason.
It's ok for people to just hate things. I hate spinach for example. Listing all the reasons that my distaste for spinach is irrational won't change that.
Similarly, explaining to the new amish that AI with TDD writess better code than most of the devs I know isn't going to get you anywhere. They don't really care about code quality at all. It's a religious or political belief.