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“Fact is, vibe-coded projects devolve over time into an unmaintainable mess.”
Alexandru Nedelcu, blog author · hn ↗Alexandru Nedelcu Software developer, blog authordavedx Hacker News commenterNalNezumi Hacker News commenter
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2 outlets AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
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There's a continuum between "vibe coded by someone with no technical knowledge or inclination" and "hand written domain driven design development". You can absolutely use coding agents AND have maintainable code. But yes, the coding agents will not magically make everything maintainable if you don't tell them to."Code maintainability and good…
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> You can absolutely use coding agents AND have maintainable code. But yes, the coding agents will not magically make everything maintainable if you don't tell them to.The trillion dollar question is how you do this, if your employees do not care (they are optimising for salary & time spent not code quality) and you have no way of telling apart AI…
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Tbf, at this point, this has been said ad-nauseam.At least I did not find a new thought in that (granted, relatable) rant."This is bad and you are bad" requires people to not defend their reality through rationalization, but the point we're at with AI right now is driven by exactly that. So this is at best highly ineffective at reaching the people…
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> yes, the coding agents will not magically make everything maintainable if you don't tell them to.There's the rub. It requires knowing about and caring about maintainability. And a lot of the people who "haven't written a line of code since 2025" don't care
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As much as I'd love to believe it, it is now a conservative take. Sure, having a solid architecture in mind still matters right now, but manually writing code is completely unnecessary and, before long, even designing the architecture is going to be completely automated.
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> Fact is, vibe-coded projects devolve over time into an unmaintainable mess.We've had strong coding agents for less than a year. Anyone making such a definitive statement about how vibe-coded projects progress over time is basing it on guesswork, not evidence.
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The author admits to a measurement: maintainability. There are quantitative and qualitative ways to measure this, the biggest signal being outright abandonment
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