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neilvyesterday at 8:50 PM0 repliesview on HN

I would seriously consider banning "vibe coding" right now, because:

1. Poor solutions.

2. Solutions not understood by the person who prompted them.

3. Development team being made dumber.

4. Legal and ethical concerns about laundering open source copyrights.

5. I'm suspicious of the name "vibe coding", like someone is intentionally marketing it to people who don't care to be good at their jobs.

6. I only want to hire people who can do holistically better work than current "AI". (Not churn code for a growth startup's Potemkin Village, nor to only nominally satisfy a client's requirements while shipping them piles of counterproductive garbage.)

7. Publicizing that you are a no-AI-slop company might scare away the majority of the bad prospective employees, while disproportionately attracting the especially good ones. (Not that everyone who uses "AI" is bad, but they've put themselves in the bucket with all the people who are bad, and that's a vastly better filter for the art of hiring than whether someone has spent months memorizing LeetCode answers solely for interviews.)