> "vibe coded" is NOT the bad thing you think it is.

It's not inherently bad in the same way that a first draft of a novel is not inherently bad.

But if someone asked me to read their novel and it was a first draft that they themselves had clearly not bothered reading or editing, I'd tell them to fuck off.

Sure, but the problem is when you take that half hour of work and share it with other people without making clear how much effort has gone into it.

Software is valuable if it has been tested and exercised properly by other people. I don't care if you vide coded it provided you then put the real work in to verify that it actually works correctly - and then include the proof that you've done that when you start widely sharing it with the world.

Right now it's impossible to tell which of these projects implementing the paper are worth spending time with.

> Going from paper to implementation from scratch in half an hour or so is great.

This repo isn’t showing that at all. Scroll to the bottom of the README and you’ll see the other project it was based on. It’s a translation of other people’s work.

There have been dozens or perhaps hundreds of vibecoded TurboQuant examples posted around the usual forums in the past few days. This one doesn’t even include anything helpful like benchmarks or tests. It’s just some proof of concept code that doesn’t even work if you try to run it.

My problem with this specific type of vibe coded project is that it’s initially presented as something more novel or polished in order to get more upvotes, karma, likes, or pad a resume. Then you read it and discover they just pointed Claude at some other projects and told it to produce something similar, then posted it as their own work.

That’s a starting spot, but how about some testing and benchmarks?

Where’s the value added if the person just tells Claude to do it and then submits a PR?

The maintainers may as well vibe code it themselves if that’s all the work the would-be contributor is going to put into it.

The authors of the project have CC as well, so doing this is just eating their time.

If there is nothing valuable it contributes, though? i.e. its not a novel paper then only value is the whatever you personally learn from it.