alt Hacker NewsBe careful getting too deep in OpenAI tooling because they end up deprecating almost everything in under two years, sometimes without even a formal notice.
Everything they make these days looks to be strongly vibecoded without a decent review or functional testing. This leads to basic avoidable bugs that annoy vast numbers of users.
Not only this, but when you point out an issue to them on GitHub, they have a history of blocking the reporting user instead of tackling the technical issue.
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In MacOS there are two ChatGPT apps. The new one and the old one called ChatGPT classic. No matter how hard I try, I can’t get the new one to work with either the “live” realtime mode or the vocal transcription feature.
It’s absurd, I have the latest OS version, a M4 MacBook, but the new app seems to be buggy as hell.
Is this the new software quality standard we should expect from a company that is worth billions (if not trillions)?
This has become the new standard, better get used to it. You have to stay on your feet no matter what technology you use. The time of picking one and sticking with it for years is long gone.
It’s all greenfield and I’m not surprised to see deprecation. Eventually tooling will distill into what works.
Makes sense. Very hard for humans to keep up with LLM-generated code. But LLMs/Agents have no problem with this. So they are using the dev style that would drive their business towards generating more money. A funny concept for a non-profit organization.
It's sort of nuts how bad the Codex app is. In a month, I've "vibe-coded" my own replacement which does everything I care about significantly better, especially their remote chat functionality which just feels completely half-baked and broken. And I'm not getting a 6 figure salary to work on it. I don't understand what they're doing.
At this point, it’s safe to assume all net-new software is vibecoded. Who in their right mind would take a month to create an MVP when a bot can spit it out in an afternoon? Existing software isn’t necessarily immune, but there are still individuals that are fighting (or resisting the change) to keep their code base human readable. It’s a losing battle. Eventually those people are either gonna change their minds, leave or be pushed out. Then the agents will be unleashed upon those code bases too.