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Comment by OptionOfT

7 days ago

And for as long that that runs on your computer, I don't care.

But the problem is that for many people they now believe it's ok to present a 10k line vibe-coded PR that only has been verified against external behavior, and some Senior Engineer needs to review it, in time, under pressure, without too much push-back, and lastly, it's the Senior Engineer that gets paged at 2am because something has fallen over.

Also, those scripts tend to start a life of their own, and because it looks good enough, people don't look at them again.

I recall a bug of someone vibe-coding a cleanup script for folders older than $x (on Windows).

Get the CreationDate, and sort. Delete older than $x. Except CreationDate can be null and null is always smaller than $x.

Oops.

I mean, that's more the fault of either whoever made that field nullable (the file existed before the Big Bang?) or whoever made "null < (integer)" not throw an error in that language!

Wait a minute...

/me tests a few expressions in the JavaScript console

Ahh, I see this was in the magical world of JavaScript.