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by worble 21 days ago
> It's not like people audit every line of kernel/driver/BIOS/EFI code before running Linux?

That's basically Torvolds full time job?

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> That's basically Torvolds full time job?

It's actually more like 50 devs, each of them specialized in their own field, with 20+ years programming experience.

And even they make mistakes sometimes (see the recent TOCTOU exploit wave).

What vibecoders never get: it's about stability of software. Nobody will rely on your vibecoded project if even you yourself don't give a damn about any API stability or API contracts.

If you expect others to use vibecode assistants to use your software/library... then what was the reason in the first place to write it, if it's effectively not solving a problem? The whole points of dependencies and packages goes out of the window once the library maintainers start to use slopcoding practices.