alt Hacker NewsYou can today develop a mobile app with 20 screens without ever reviewing any of the code generated.
If you test each feature and have it iterate on your feedback, you can build a decent product in this way.
Does it write too much code? Perhaps. Could I bring those 100k lines through code review in a team where some members nitpick? No.
That does not change the fact that it works, and that you do not need to read the code even today.
Unless progress slows down dramatically and soon, it seems rather likely that most of us will not be reading code in the near future. Their marketing is not wrong.
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Unless the app is released and running on user’s device, your “it works” is on the level of hackathon’s demo. Being on prod has always been the true testing ground of code.
It seems like when people are talking about production level quality and how the AI. should be helping them there, plenty of people comes up with their “it works on my machine” anecdotes.
I really hope vibe coded apps have to be labeled as such so I can make sure to avoid using them. As a customer, I have zero interest in using something that was made with little care or expertise.