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by marginalia_nu 17 days ago
IT outsourcing was arguably a sort of precursor to vibecoding, and consulting companies are arguably still eating well cleaning up the legendary mess it created.
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As someone that regularly is involved in such projects, fashion driven industry is great for consulting, which is one reason it exists in first place.
I work in Salesforce consulting ecosystem, notorious for producing awful code (occasionally passing project until you find someone code for $1 per hour (I kid you not)).

Now within last year it improved to point I can trust it produce decent quality that beats like 95% of human slop.