@jmtd And therefore easier for malicious code to appear unnoticed ...

@jmtd This is possibly what distresses me the most with the rampant spread of Gen AI in general -- not just vibe coding; it's propensity to seemingly ease to the pain of complying with what is already perceived as a purely performative task, compulsory yet ultimately meaningless: filling in your quarterly performance review, writing a cover letter, posting on linkedin, etc...
But if it is indeed pointless, why even bother in the first place? And if it had not been completely devoid of purpose before, you can be certain that is now that any hints of agency have been removed from the humans involved, so why continue?

I don't know how popular this cartoon was outside of France, but I find myself thinking about it a lot these days:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Shadoks

@jmtd yeah, I'm sure the pendulum will swing the other way sooner or later.
But god am I annoyed that we have to live through such incredibly stupid times!!!

@jmtd @fred and, at the same time, I see fellow developers that I respect wonder whether there's still a future in programming…
I can't fathom how people do not realize that LLMs only somewhat work because they are trained on existing stuff. If "original" stuff ceases to be created, the whole system collapses (and it's been proven that there is significant degradation in quality when training LLMs on LLM output)…

@fred @jmtd it might take a high-profile, death-provoking incident, though… Imagine vibe-coded nuclear power plant control code or airplane auto-pilot system (though, I guess Boeing "innovated" there already)…