It _is_ sus, but you should be willing to forgive. It's not like it was done out of animus, and I assume that an academic/foreigner is unaccustomed to how production software conventions work. Their baseline is less important, more important is how quickly they learn/adopt "best practices". Y-intercept, slope, etc.

I say this as literally the first HN comment to call them out on this.

it becomes more sus as the superfans come out

the author here is providing commentary on the vibe coding era, bend is just one example of people having ai build things for them they don't understand or haven't researched sufficiently, at least start with a vibe-search skill before the vibe-coding begins

Ai is only good at a task when the human driver is good at that task, and this is far more narrow than most realize. Someone who knows how to program will still fail on many programming tasks with agents, the field has far too much for any one person to know.