🔗 ByteSauna: AI can code, but it can’t build software

When you look at the code these people send you, you realize that “making the app production-ready” really means torching the whole thing and starting from scratch.

I do use GenAI in my personal projects occasionally, but I wouldn’t describe what I do as vibe coding. I know what I want done and how I would do it, which helps in knowing whether the generated code is any good. The thought of doing this for an entire software project without the knowledge of what good code looks like doesn’t give me confidence that these vibe coders would see much success for long. Pretty soon, someone who knows what they’re doing will eventually need to come in and clean up the mess.

The fact that I get these requests says something about software engineering. I mean, if software engineering was automated, no one would be looking for technical cofounders.

Indeed.

Via: Birchtree