Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto

Just vibe code a solution, and then when that goes wrong vibe code the solution to that. Should keep you in work for decades.

At a new job I asked about the crash rate of the mobile app during the interview, and they brought up a dashboard showing it was very low. I wasn't paying enough attention, but they were showing me the daily crash rate, and the day rolled over in UTC time, and had apparently just rolled over in the middle of our day, so not a lot of crashes yet. It actually had an abysmal crash rate. Structured / designed poorly at the core.

Fixing that app took years. Some of it was definitely soul deadening, but there was also something good about turning it all around and people seeing the positive impact as things kept getting better.

A lot of companies use "vibe coding" an excuse to offshore software development work to cheaper countries without anyone noticing.

But yeah it's not gonna work out in the long term for a business that:

• Encourages people to submit random nonsense to the codebase instead of doing actual work
• Removes all entry-level positions
• Lays off anyone who knows what they're doing

That's how you get a codebase that kinda sorta works in a way but is more evolved than designed, full of security holes, slow as heck, and disorganized to the point where it's impossible to fix bugs, adds features, or understand what's going on.

It reminds me of the people still being paid to clean up or maintain the large Fortran and COBOL codebases

By my guess, its gonna take about a decade to fully clean up the mountains of slop code that this AI bubble's gonna leave. It'll certainly be lucrative (and soul-deadening, as you note), but as someone else has noted before, the riches are exclusively going to experienced devs and senior programmers - for anyone trying to break into the industry, they're probably gonna have to find work somewhere else.

I wish I could agree, but I was one of the countless laid off to make way for our new overlords

absolutely appalling figuring it out, it really was "it can't be this stupid, I must be understanding it wrong"

then I got to the bash injection

and the proud "Generated by Claude Code"

and welp

don’t wanna read this

what a coincidence!

It's like a one-and-a-half-page article that also comes in audio and video form, don't be lazy.

Have a LLM summarize it for you. That fits with the article context quite nicely ;)