The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes

(404media.co)

22 points | by zdw 8 hours ago

2 comments

  • imposterr 29 minutes 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.

  • westurner 3 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