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Is it astonishing you got to 17% with some vibe code? Sure.

But most of the stuff I’ve vibe coded this year has been astonishing by 2025’s standards.

If you got 100% I’d be genuinely blown away.

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What I suspect is this 17% is the exact sub-set it needed to hack together to make the goal (running some example website) a reality as this is what those dodgy weasels do if you let them. Then you get to spend 200x the time to fill in the rest of the "speculative features deferred due to no real consumer" on top of whatever dodgy system they made up, which is usually whatever is easiest/closest to the literature instead of the actual intended design. Lots and lots of fun to be had doing the full-pipeline refactors to add that last 2% which need support from tip to tail.

It's all in good fun, though... probably?

The article doesn't go into how they managed the AI context when implementing things but I would not be surprised if it was done in a methodical way, 80% - 90% of the test could have passed.

Standards vary.

Does anyone know why we write code anymore? Why not pass through to an llm that generates the page on the fly (ssr)?

Is it cost ?

Yes: cost, speed, and reliability.

But all of those things are improving at shocking speeds, so I think we’re on a path where code is losing value quickly.

Yeah, I agree. It will be like serverless but for code : codeless.

It’s a disconcerting future.

Why disconcerting?

Seems like the reshaping of an industry and is disconcerting for those of us who work in it.

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