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Comment by CuriouslyC | Hacker News Reader

Vibe coders do care about quality, at least the ones that try to ship and get burned by a mountain of tech debt. People aren't as stupid and one dimensional as you assume.

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Given an entire industry is cropping up to fix the mess these people make, I think less of them care then you think.

Hard disagree. Vibe code has its downsides but is not nearly as terrible as threatened coders on the forums make it seem.

It's not a threat to software engineers at all. These things are worse than useless when someone who doesn't know what they're doing tries. If anything they're going to create jobs.

Vibe coders are the new script kiddies.

Is it an industry, or just a meme job title? Serious question.

There have been plenty of articles about it recently, seems real enough to me.

I wonder if that's sustainable though, as either the tools get better or companies realise it's not a magic bullet? Time will tell.

It's not. The cost of fixing the garbage will outweigh any savings on the front end. Any experienced dev will tell you it's easier to spend a little extra up front to make things more maintainable then it is to fix a mess later.

And even the tools get better, they'll never get to the point where you don't need experts to utilize them, as long as LLMs are the foundation.

And where, exactly, did this commenter say that vibe coders are "stupid and one dimensional"? Stop putting words in people's mouths.

>> Vibe coders don't care about quality and wouldn't understand why any of these things are a problem in the first place.

He literally bucketed an entire group of people by a weak label and made strong claims about competence and conscientiousness.

That comment sounds pretty benign to me. I also don't know why you're assuming the original commenter is male. The only person in the wrong here is you, and you're wrong twice over.

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