alt Hacker NewsWhy do people think there will be fixing AI slop software? I see that opinion here and there on HN. The cost of codegen is next to nothing. It makes no sense to spend large sums of money having an engineer fix something that could be generated over and over until gods of stochasticity come in your favour.
We've entered a period of single-use-plastic software, piling up and polluting everything, because it's cheaper than the alternative
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If the AI slop software managed to get a user base, then you can't just throw it away and completely start over. You need to modify it in a way that is seamless for your users. If all code becomes single use, are users generating it for themselves? Do you think a dentist office will vibe code their own scheduling software?
When everything is generated on-demand - each exploit has to be discovered anew. No more conveniences like common libraries.
This is sarcasm, but it's probably also going to get sold as a feature at some point.