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by reedf1 179 days ago
it's even worse than that! non-devs are doing it as well
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That's what democratization looks like. And the new participants are happy!
…Until you tell them to maintain all the technical debt that was generated when it breaks and waste more time and money / tokens on fixing the security issues.

A great time to be a vibe coding cleanup specialist (i.e, professional security software engineer)

it's even worse than that! bots are doing it as well
Abandon any platform that decides to put bots into your workflow without you telling it to.

Vote with your wallet.

Hopefully once this AI nonsense blows over they'll reach the same realisation they did after the mid 2000s outsourcing craze: that actually you gotta pay for good engineering talent.