I wonder, when you have a McDonald's McDouble, do you really care how it was made or do you just care that it's yummeroni and costs $2.99?
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People who care about their health aren't ignorant about that. I think that can apply to software too: if you care about safety or privacy you might think twice before using vibe-coded software.
it is profitable to sell McDoubles, since they are popular and cheap, but McDonalds CEO doesnt eat its own burgers
https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1rhug58/mcd...
so it is profitable to sell vibecoding tools, but its unlikely to be consumed by "serious organizations"
That is a significant leap in logic. A vibecoding tool is not a McDouble. Nor is Chris Kempczinski the same person as Dario Amodei.
The biggest difference is that there are only so many ways to eat a McDouble, but you can actually wield a vibe coding tool with skill. There's nothing stopping you from looking at the code and asking for structural reworks or refactors that please your code taste. In fact one of the best use cases for AI coding tools is vibe refactoring old apps where the code is straight up horrible.
> but you can actually wield a vibe coding tool with skill. There's nothing stopping you from looking at the code
It’s hard to give something like “vibe coding” a rigid definition, but I think we can all agree that it’s inversely correlated with "looking at the code". The more I examine the code while building, the less the activity is about vibes.
So, used this way, it's true that it's not a McDouble anymore, but it's also not so much of a vibecoding tool anymore either.
I think babysitting the AI would be a better term than vibe coding. At work they call it "AI assisted engineering" and "synthetic coworkers"
how about tools like Lovable ?
is Lovable used internally to create and improve Lovable product itself ?
A significant leap in logic is my middle name :) (I am not an AI)
> so it is profitable to sell vibecoding tools, but its unlikely to be consumed by "serious organizations"
Isn't Anthropic currently using a "vibe coded" version of Bun they made using their own models?
Except AI corporations by and large all eat their own burgers (since any developer not leveraging agents effectively is woefully ignorant)
i have never had a "mcdonald's mcdouble", whatever that is. i cook my own burgers because i am a human being and i want to eat real food, not nauseating slop that should only be fed to livestock
it is profitable to sell McDoubles, since they are popular and cheap, but McDonalds CEO doesnt eat its own burgers
so it is profitable to sell vibecoding tools, but its unlikely to be consumed by "serious organizations"