Comment by zahlman
10 hours ago
> Vibe coding, on the other hand, is competing against hand coding, and for many use cases is considerably more efficient. It’s clearly replacing a lot of hand coding.
It seems like a lot of vibe coders are people who otherwise wouldn't be coding at all.
If you're a web dev you're vibe coding. You might not be admitting it, but you're using those tools. Because you would be crazy not to.
Yeah, it's like saying that the amateur rocketry guys on youtube are going to replace NASA.
Good example! 90 percent ( or even more) of code do not need NASA level code. Vibe coding is good enough.
Just like a five dollar t shirt is enough for many many people
Way more than 90% of code doesn’t need to be up to NASA standards. But there are many levels of quality between vibe coded and NASA engineered. Most code that makes money is in the middle, but should probably be closer the NASA end of the spectrum.
If 90% of code is for hobbies that don't cost anyone anything when it breaks, great - but launching rockets into space with million or billion dollar payloads is akin to software that makes millions or billions of dollars, and vibeslop is simply a liability at best in any real use case past a weekend hobby project.
The vibe coders wish they could produce the equivalent of a $5 teeshirt. Or they think they are because they don't have the ability to tell.