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Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering
vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering August 01, 2025 TL;DR: My take on AI for programming and "vibe coding" is that it will do to software engineering what fast fashion did to the clothing industry: flood the market with cheap, low-quality products and excessive waste. First, to get this out of the way, I’ll note that I’m a casual user of LLMs for coding.
TL;DR: My take on AI for programming and "vibe coding" is that it will do to software engineering what fast fashion did to the clothing industry: flood the market with cheap, low-quality products and excessive waste. Recently, I asked an LLM to create files for deploying an R Shiny app behind a Caddy web server with basic auth. I won’t scare developers with words like "certifications" or "licenses to practice", but as poor-quality code proliferates, proving our work’s quality will become critical.
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