alt Hacker NewsThis is a vibe coding Trojan horse article.
> That’s the real story. Not the script, but how AI changes the calculus of what’s worth our time.
Looking at the github source code, I can instantly tell. It's also full of gotchas.
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The author literally says this is vibe-coded. You even quoted it. How the hell is this "Trojan horse"? Did the Greeks have a warning sign saying "soldiers inside" on their wooden horse?
I'm not a go developer and this kind of thing is far from my area of expertise. Do you mind giving some examples?
As far as I can tell skimming the code, and as I said, without knowledge of Go or the domain, the "shape" of the code isn't bad. If I got any vibes (:))from it, it was lack of error handling and over reliance on exactly matching strings. Generally speaking, it looks quite fragile.
FWIW I don't think the conclusion is wrong. With limited knowledge he managed to build a useful program for himself to solve a problem he had. Without AI tools that wouldn't have happened.
Ugh. I appreciate the tool and I suppose I can appreciate AI for making the barrier to entry for writing such a tool lower. I just don't like AI, and I will continue with my current software development practices and standards for production-grade code - code coverage, linting, manual code reviews, things like that.
At the same time though I'm at a point in my career where I'm cynical and thinking it really doesn't matter because whatever I build today will be gone in 5-10 years anyway (front-end mainly).