Anthropic is probably on the leading edge of vibe coding, and in the past month, they’ve had major server uptime issues, they accidentally released the source code for their biggest product, and as of this week, their latest model was accidentally posted on an open URL for anyone to download. In the last 6 months, people have actually switched from vibe coding small apps to vibe coding major sections of their core infrastructure, and all evidence so far suggests that the consequences will come.
I’m vibe coding a fairly complicated bash script to fully automate upgrading a web server at work. For context, I have over 2 decades experience in programming/data analytics/tech, but I’m a Linux and server admin newbie.
It’s comically bad at it. Like, I had to tell it not to post passwords to the production database to console and plaintext log files. Then, about a dozen prompts later, it does it again. The restore script rm-ed things (as sudo) before checking that it had a valid backup file to replace it with. It keeps deleting the comments in the code snippets I send it to update/fix, even when explicitly told to keep the comments. I asked it to prepend time to live commands (i.e. not “dry run” echos), and then it deleted them all again when I asked it to refactor something unrelated.
It’s been great learning for me, and I’m definitely getting this job done faster and to a higher quality than I could on my own, but holy hell these scripts would have been a disaster if someone just ran them “as is”. I’ve needed to fix dozens of errors that could have really screwed things up.
I wonder how often people go through their vibe coded outputs with the careful attention and care it needs. I’m guessing infrequently. LLMs are just word prediction machines; they don’t understand anything.
I saw this one person who, despite getting 3 warnings (one in the chat, 2 in the file itself) about not placing a plaintext API key into a version-controlled env file from a chatbot, did so anyway. Its not just about the AI, but also about the people using them. Someone with experience will be able to utilize the speed of an AI, while finding its mistakes as well. A “vibe coder” won’t know the difference.
Does that include breaking promises to users and promising everlasting servitude to president orange blob inmate #P01135809?
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Of course! Google would say that. Doesn’t mean it’s true. They aren’t under oath and they have every reason to lie.
This is such a stupid metric and any investors excited by it should feel bad.
Enshitifying your own Enshitification
And that’s only 30% lol
“Yes, but have you shipped anything positive?”
Man Gemini sucks. They force replaced assistant with Gemini for me.
“Hey google, play my rock playlist”
“You dont have a rock Playlist on youtube music”
“Hey google play rock Playlist on spotify”
“You dont have “rock Playlist on Spotify” on youtube music”
We call this fucking progress?
I know its barely related to the post. Just fuck Google and fuck their ai
Ah, so that’s why things are so fucked.
We can tell
I have a friend at Google who been saying “sorry p0 bug” so much in the last month…
Are they using ai to fix them?
I still remember the good old days when google has the best code quality among big techs. That being said, seeing how shitty everyone’s code has become, google might still be the best :)
Yeah, we can tell…
Is this why everything feels EVEN SHITTIER than it did a year ago?
I’d say something, but it’s pretty much all been covered. They’re now too big to fail, so we just have to put up with whatever they serve up next.
I’m not changing phone ecosystems, as I enjoy having some marginal level of control over the hardware I fucking purchased. Search is fucking worthless; I’ve not used that in ages. DDG gets the job done without a screen and a half of ads and sponsored content.
Who the fuck puts up with this shit?
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Also, as I have nearly run out of fucks to give: Fuck. And now I’m out of them again.
I’m not changing phone ecosystems, as I enjoy having some marginal level of control over* the hardware I fucking purchased*.
Open source android forks exist. Open source operating systems exist. Phones that natively run both exist. Do you mean that you specifically enjoy having maginal control, no more, no less?
