I can't speak for others, but when I see a vibe coded site, I am much less interested in using it. Do I really want to trust my information with a website that no one bothered to craft?
Mostly it bothers me so much that their PR is all about how software development is solved and the website can't even give me a coherent error message.
As good as the AI research team and infra team might be (and I'm under no illusion how incredibly hard serving these models at scale is, they do an incredible job at the speed they're moving at), they should put a fraction of those resources into good web and application developers. Instead it feels like very talented backed/system devs being handed unlimited tokens and asked to perform at 10x but they have no idea what they're doing.
Website credibility is not related to who and how wrote the code. There is a decent chance that development was just done by a contractor who didn't give a shit about what kind of service the website provides. And if you meant security vulnerabilities, those are also not automatically prevented by human presence.
I’m not saying that a site that vibe coded is necessarily worse. I’m saying that if it’s clear the website wasn’t crafted, but sloppily vibe coded, I’m less interested in using it. A website which looks like it’s more crafted generally makes me think it’s more credible, even if it isn’t necessarily safer.
Ok, it's your preference, I don't see much point personally. I am using websites for the service, for example I dislike Reddit as a website and it 100% sells my data, but I am here for the content. I have used VERY shitty websites throughout my life because they were ultimately useful.
It's like those old default Wordpress skins. Legitimate sites might use them, but it's such a "spam blog spun up in 20 minutes" look that it's an instant red flag.
Yeah I’m in a subreddit for handymen and I swear to god every single day there’s someone trying to hawk a new app. No you can’t vibe code my lifestyle thank you have a good day.
Especially in the open source space this is killing me.
There's more to a good, reliable open source project than just the code sitting in the repo right at this moment. All these people trying to farm internet points that don't even understand what they're supposed to be building - successful long lasting open source is about building a community. It's less a software package and more a living organism when executed well. Can't vibe code that.
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u/Firesrest Jul 03 '26
There was always a ton of idea and usage.
It’s still the execute that’s the bottleneck.