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Comment by rl3

19 hours ago

>> ...give him unlimited model access

>We do not need vibe-coded critical infrastructure.

I think when you have virtually unlimited compute, it affords the ability to really lock down test writing and code review to a degree that isn't possible with normal vibe code setups and budgets.

That said for truly critical things, I could see a final human review step for a given piece of generated code, followed by a hard lock. That workflow is going to be popular if it already isn't.

The availability or lack thereof of compute has absolutely nothing to do with my opinion. More vibe coded tests doesn't fix the problem.

  • It might when an individual function has 50 different models reviewing it, potentially multiple times each.

    Perhaps part of a complex review chain for said function that's a few hundred LLM invocations total.

    So long as there's a human reviewing it at the end and it gets locked, I'd argue it ultimately doesn't matter how the code was initially created.

    There's a lot of reasons it would matter before it gets to that point, just more to do with system design concerns. Of course, you could also argue safety is an ongoing process that partially derives from system design and you wouldn't be wrong.

    It occurred to me there's some recent prior art here:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721953

    It's probably fair to say the Linux kernel is critical infra, or at least a component piece in a lot of it.

    • I do not care how strong your vibes are and how many claudes you have producing slop and reviewing each others' slop. I do not think vibe coding is appropriate for critical infrastructure. I don't understand why you think telling me you'd have more slop would make me appreciate it more.

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