Vibe coding indeed originally meant "give in to the vibes [...] and forget that the code even exists."
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In the case of this specific port, the port was done so fast that it is clear humans did not verify the soundness of the translation. It is not clear whether this manual verification will ever occur.
That being said, most software projects were already doing "vibe coding" by Dijkstra's standards long before AI showed up. Going on vibes and forgetting that correctness even exists ;)
Guaranteeing the correctness of complex code is difficult, but it will increasingly become non-optional as we now have a billion hackers in a data center.
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Edit: "Bun's unreleased Rust port has 13,365 unsafe blocks"
I'm using LLMs to assist my development and I'm measurably (in all the ways we
engineers could possibly care about) doing better work faster.
Writing code is rarely the limiting factor in our work.
studies suggest nothing. i've released a massive number of features in the last year for several projects that i estimate would have taken me multiple years to put together in a much more mentally exhausting way.
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