The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes

(404media.co)

27 points | by zdw 9 hours ago

3 comments

  • imposterr 1 hour ago
    >If the resulting software is so poor you need to hire a human specialist software engineer to come in and rewrite the vibe coded software, it defeats the entire purpose.

    I don't think this is entirely true. In a lot of cases vibe coding something can be a good way to prototype something and see how users respond. Obviously don't do it for something where security is a concern, but that vibe-coded skin cancer recognition quiz that was on the front page the other day is a good example.

  • bravetraveler 36 minutes ago
    Like Red Teams for InfoSec, reliability teams meet developers. Not new, but keep pumping Gig Culture/the fad, I guess.
  • westurner 4 hours ago
    Typical coding LLM issues:

    Hallucinations

    Context limits

    Lack of test coverage and testing-based workflow

    Lack of actual docs

    Lack of a spec

    Great README; cool emoji