[bragh]

Maybe we just aren't far enough in the vibe coding side of things and there are still too many people in the industry who still pay attention to details, so no major catastrophes haven't happened yet because of vibe coding. So the people who pay attention to details are still carrying their organizations, but I do wonder how long it is going to be sustainable.

When it comes to joy killers because of AI, then it is dismal how plagiarism (going by the definition of "presenting someone else's work without attribution") suddenly became widely accepted. When I see long lists of bullet points with interspersed bold text, I know that it is something the sender did not write or bother reviewing. Absolute cherry on top when in the end of that text you see the typical LLM suggestion that you can ask for more information, which the sender didn't even bother removing.

[inigyou]

> major catastrophes haven't happened yet because of vibe coding

Didn't Azure, AWS and Cloudflare crash a few times in the second half of 2025 because of vibe coding?

[bragh]

They crashed yes, but not for too long and they did recover. And was it ever confirmed it was because of vibe coding? Not sure how much if any it even impacted their stock.

[inigyou]

It was confirmed each was because of vibe coding.

[bayindirh]

Can you share some links?

Asking for myself, some friends and HN community at large.

[ThunderSizzle]

Catastrophies would be we vibe coded a nuclear plant or space rocket system and we blew up thousands of people due to a vibe coding error.

[leonidasrup]

I can confirm that nuclear power plant software has much higher quality level than normal commercial software and extremly extensive testing. In addition, lot of nuclear safety is checked below the software level on hardware level.

Developement of nuclear power plant software is very conservative, it will use LLMs maybe in 10-15 years.

[inigyou]

Bringing most of the western world economy to a standstill isn't one? When I say AWS was down I mean AWS was down.

[antonvs]

> Bringing most of the western world economy to a standstill

That’s a huge exaggeration.

[inigyou]

True, it was Crowdstrike that did that, and that one wasn't AI.

[antonvs]

The Crowdstrike outage only affected Windows machines. It probably improved the world economy.

[memoriyato3]

programmers were always against "software patents" - the idea of copyrighting algorithms and implementations

[inigyou]

implementations are already copyright