Comment by 16bitvoid
5 days ago
The bar isn't any higher. There's just no grace given. No one is judging a hobby project made by a human on quality, and the person who the hobby project belongs to will rarely say that their code is high quality. And in a professional setting, I think people are fine with "good enough" but they're not going to claim anything is high-quality.
But people are so quick to label their vibe-coded codebase as high quality and no grace is going to be given to a machine.
What comments are you seeing that are calling code from humans high-quality?
Grace shouldn't be given though. The code from vibe coding should pass the review bar as-is. If you need to iterate, you've defeated the purpose.
Because the end result is people committing bad code. For some random hobby project, sure who cares. But people are using this at work. The codebase is rotting in a new innovative way.
Either the bar has to be set at "actually good code comes out of vibe coding" or you have to accept that codebases are going to steadily become less usable by human coders who use their fingers to type in emacs.
Suddenly every dev needs an agent to even work with the slop. Seems like an outcome Anthropic would love though....