[matt_kantor]

I can't speak for the author, but I would definitely claim that having a bus factor of zero for any remotely-mission-critical piece of software is "fundamentally flawed", no matter the cause. I'd say the same for a bus factor of one in most settings.

[johnfn]

I think that's moving goalposts. The original post never talks about vibe-coding mission-critical software - and I wouldn't advocate for that, either. The post says that all vibe coding is fundamentally flawed.

[matt_kantor]

That's fair, and I agree with you that the generalizations in the article's conclusion go too far.

I added the "remotely-mission-critical" qualifier to capture additional nuance. Tolerance for a low bus factor should be inversely correlated with a project's importance. That wasn't explicitly stated in the article, but it seems uncontroversial, and I suspect the author would agree with me.