Is vibe coding the new gateway to technical debt?
infoworld.comAbsolutely, but it is much worse. Hey, I'm a fan of llm assist but I have seen vibe coders at work say. Here is my feature request and here is my code base. Make it happen. Then run two tests and commit.
I sometimes call them into code reviews to talk about how they implemented their PR. Most of the time they cant even say what files they modified let alone what they actually committed.
Sure it works now but in a month it will be a black box that noone can find let alone fix.
Just my 2 cents.
> Sure it works now but in a month it will be a black box that noone can find let alone fix.
This is true for most codebases pre-LLM as well :) LLMs though may give you more code comments like
// check if i == 1 if (i == 1) {}Possibly, but pre llm I dont recall ever doing triage on a new issue where the author of the patch had literally no idea what had been comitted. Something I can unfortunately no longer say.