[a_bonobo]

>I know people running vibe coded startups. The software quality is garbage. But it does what they want. And that’s all they care about for now. Until a time when software quality impacts their business more than losing control does, they’ll keep vibe coding, rather than hiring a software engineer who bastardises their ideas.

Well, IKEA's furniture quality is garbage yet they make billions. It's cheap and fast. That's capitalism for you. (not implying that communist countries produced amazing products...)

[HarHarVeryFunny]

I wouldn't say IKEA furniture is garbage, or comparable to some vibe coded mess that may contain who knows how many bugs and vulnerabilities.

IKEA furniture is obviously a trade off between quality and cost, but it does what it is designed to do.

Capitalism isn't just a race to the bottom - there are markets for products at all sorts of price points.

Maybe typical Supermarket produce section = IKEA is a better comparison than vibe coding = IKEA, although whether a tomato that tastes of nothing is really doing it's job is debatable.