I regularly see claims by people that they have produced large, reliable bodies of code using vibe coding. Unfortunately, no vibe coded project I've used comes anywhere close to code reviewed by a human. Admittedly, my sample size is very small: things like claude-code, OpenClaw, and the occasional project I see mentioned here. But compared to the things I used regularly like GNU coreutils, Firefox, Linux, vim, git and the hundreds of other software projects I use daily, vibe coded apps are in a different ballpark. Vibe coded apps of a few 100k lines often glitch several times a day, the traditional ones that have several orders of magnitude more lines often don't fail in several years of use.
AI is now being used to assist in creating and maintaining these traditional bodies of software, of course. It looks like it has enhanced productivity as open source contributions have grown by 20% or so, and we've only just started to learn how to use it. I haven't noticed any degradation in quality. It may be too early to tell, but I suspect the engineers involved wouldn't let that happen.
As you say, it's a skill issue - it takes considerable skill to produce reliable maintainable code. But I suspect that wasn't the skill you are referring to.
I regularly see claims by people that they have produced large, reliable bodies of code using vibe coding. Unfortunately, no vibe coded project I've used comes anywhere close to code reviewed by a human. Admittedly, my sample size is very small: things like claude-code, OpenClaw, and the occasional project I see mentioned here. But compared to the things I used regularly like GNU coreutils, Firefox, Linux, vim, git and the hundreds of other software projects I use daily, vibe coded apps are in a different ballpark. Vibe coded apps of a few 100k lines often glitch several times a day, the traditional ones that have several orders of magnitude more lines often don't fail in several years of use.
AI is now being used to assist in creating and maintaining these traditional bodies of software, of course. It looks like it has enhanced productivity as open source contributions have grown by 20% or so, and we've only just started to learn how to use it. I haven't noticed any degradation in quality. It may be too early to tell, but I suspect the engineers involved wouldn't let that happen.
As you say, it's a skill issue - it takes considerable skill to produce reliable maintainable code. But I suspect that wasn't the skill you are referring to.