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by impjohn 71 days ago
I believe it's ultimately a tug of war between what the business wants (more features, faster, etc) and the engineers want (maintainability, documentation, scalable patterns etc). Engineers rarely win this tug of war. At times it feels like watching a car crash in slow motion. I don't think this trend will meaningfully slow or change, until businesses interests are hit. That may take a while for this cruft to start causing pain. Even then, you may just throw money at the problem, or just live with it. Will companies go bankrupt because of vibe coding? I don't think so, and that's why ai coding is here to stay. My 2 cents