A friend asked me to look at their code, and *Holy Mother of God!* He works for a medium-sized company. They are building some sort of internal CRM. They've been vibe-coding some of the new features. They are professional developers. Most, I assume, know what they are doing, but I guess it's exhilarating to build 1 week's worth of work in 1 hour and call it a day. The difference between old and new code is clear as day: The old code looks intentional and clean, as if it were written by someone who cared. The new code looks verbose, soulless, and sloppy. Every vibe-coder is now generating as much technical debt as 10 regular developers in half the time. We'll need three generations of developers to clean the mess. We are all becoming rich, for sure.

Most people know that bad food makes the fat. They still stuff their mouths with crap every day. The same happens with developers using AI to vibe-code functionality. Of course they know it’s bad and they should monitor the code better. But they just don’t do it. Short term pleasure is too delicious to ignore.

@alllegna Because…