alt Hacker NewsThe hardest part about this stuff is that as a user, you don't necessarily know if an app is vibe-coded or not. Previously, you were able to have _some_ reasonable expectation of security in that trained engineers were the ones building these things out, but that's no longer the case.
There's a lot of cool stuff being built, but also as a user, it's a scary time to be trying new things.
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Yeah, my trust for new open source projects is in the toilet. Hopefully we will eventually start taking security seriously again after the vibe code gold rush.
The hardest part about this stuff is that as a user, you don't necessarily know if an app is vibe-coded or not
Hah. Advert of the year. Can’t really tell the difference anymore huh …
I'm sorry, what?
> Previously, you were able to have _some_ reasonable expectation of security in that trained engineers were the ones building these things
When was this? What world? Did I skip worldlines? Is this a new Universe?
The world I remember is that anybody could write a program and put it on the Internet. Is this not the world you remember?
Further, when those engineers were "trained" ... were there no data breaches before 2022?
The frequency with which I see contemporary apps updating (sometimes multiple times a day) says there's a change in culture that also makes professionals prone to mistakes.
I get that we'll never ship a perfect release, but if you have to push fixes once a day it seems you've lost perspective.
Vibe coding slopiness is more acceptable now because we've lowered our standards