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Vibe Coding Will Rob Us of Our Freedom
2 months ago
- A junior developer used an AI assistant to quickly generate code that passed basic tests but contained a critical SQL injection vulnerability.
- Despite warnings, the team deployed the code to production because it appeared to work, ignoring the need for thorough security review.
- The author coins the term 'Vibe Coding' to describe developers relying on AI prompts and surface-level testing instead of deep code understanding.
- This trend risks turning programmers from architects (who understand fundamentals) into decorators (who only make things look good).
- The author fears future dependence on AI companies for code creation, leading to loss of programming skills and freedom.
Matt’s Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped The Web
2 months ago
- In the mid-1990s, high school student Matt Wright created simple web tools like guestbooks, contact forms, and the popular WWWBoard forum, hosted on Matt's Script Archive.
- His scripts were widely adopted by non-developers but were riddled with security flaws, including a critical 10.0 CVE for the textcounter tool that allowed remote code execution as root.
- The nms project was launched to provide drop-in replacements for Matt's insecure scripts, but it hasn't been updated in about 20 years due to changes in web development and security practices.
- The tension between easy-to-use tools and security mirrors modern 'vibe coding'; Matt's scripts were both a democratizing force and a security risk.
- The domain worldwidemart.com (formerly hosting Matt's Script Archive) was revived by a fan to preserve the historical legacy of the scripts, focusing on education rather than spam.
- Wright himself later acknowledged his code was outdated and recommended nms instead, illustrating the gap between novice and professional development perspectives.
Pluralistic: AI and amateurism (15 Jun 2026)
2 months ago
- The author's lifelong involvement with technology, from a cardboard computer to digital rights activism, shapes his perspective on AI.
- Cyberpunk's dualism—technology as both liberating and oppressive—is key to understanding AI's potential and pitfalls.
- Tools like Hypercard and Scratch empower non-programmers to create software that meets their specific needs, a principle extended by 'vibe coding' for personal projects.
- Vibe coding is valuable for personal automation but is misrepresented by industry hype as a replacement for professional software development.
- The AI industry focuses on centralization and homogenization, while local models and amateur tinkering preserve idiosyncrasy and user control.
<antirez>
2 months ago
- Automatic Programming is the process of writing software with AI assistance where the human actively guides the process using intuition, design, and continuous steering.
- Vibe coding is a passive approach where a user gives vague descriptions and the AI produces code without meaningful human involvement or understanding.
- Code generated through automatic programming belongs to the human producer, as pre-training data is a collective human gift and the human's vision is essential.
- The example of Redis shows that software value comes from ideas and vision, not just technical novelty, illustrating that programming is now automatic but vision is not.
Tool: LLM cliché highlighter
2 months ago
- The LLM cliché highlighter is a tool that detects and highlights common clichéd phrases in LLM-generated text.
- It was created by the user (via Fable 5 vibe code) due to frustration with cliché-ridden articles.
- The tool features toggleable pattern detection and context-aware sentence highlighting for ten common patterns.
- The text also mentions recent articles on OpenAI, a fireside chat with the Claude Code team, and Kimi K3.
Apple won't let me show my app
2 months ago
- Apple's App Store is experiencing high submission volume due to 'vibe coding', causing delays in app review, even for major apps like X.
- Non-game apps have surpassed games as the top revenue source on the App Store for the first time, likely due to easier CRUD app development.
- The app review team often uses automated rejection messages with minimal detail, making it hard for developers to communicate their perspective.
- The developer of Wiseday faced a rejection because screenshots supposedly didn't show the actual app in use, despite them illustrating the core concept (a paper page).
- The developer argues that Apple's two guidelines—showing the actual app in use and highlighting the core concept—are contradictory for Wiseday, as the core concept is a paper page previewed in-app.
- The developer responded to the rejection by explaining the technical details and adding a traditional device-wrapped screenshot to comply with the majority rule.
How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?
2 months ago
- Coding agents rapidly gained popularity among software developers after Claude Code's surge in late 2025, with figures like Andrej Karpathy noting a shift away from manual coding since December 2025.
- Grady Booch views this as the third golden age of software engineering, where AI agents abstract code itself, similar to how compilers abstracted the machine.
- The core problem with 'vibe coding' is the loss of understanding, awareness of dead code, and the ability to reason about or explain architectures, leading to unreliable outputs.
- Current solutions like markdown specs, skills, Spec Kit, OpenSpec, Kiro, and test-driven development fail to address trust, offering only prompt engineering without deterministic enforcement.
- Promising approaches like CodeSpeak and Scryer focus on trust by compiling specs into code or creating a shared model between developer and agent for transparency and drift detection.
- The future likely involves moving beyond manual coding for routine tasks, with agents guided by structured, auditable intent rather than vague prompts.

vibe coding

Vibe Coding Will Rob Us of Our Freedom

Matt’s Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped The Web

Pluralistic: AI and amateurism (15 Jun 2026)

<antirez>

Tool: LLM cliché highlighter

Apple won't let me show my app

How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?