Post #10554

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades I have deep reservations about the discussion under the Garbage in, garbage out heading, And I've seen some criticisms of his methodology and overall conclusions, which I can't recall, but one thing I can say is that these tools are all absolutely obsessed with error hiding. They'll engage in massive, over the top, verbose type juggling to protect against things like developers changing the type of variables WITHIN FUNCTIONS, but any time their code sees any exception or unexpected data the strategy is just shit like "return an empty result and don't log or report anything", or "try to recover but don't make a note of it anywhere" So many vibe-coded tools are going to mysteriously fail in a few years as the remote APIs they depend on change or go away and the tools never inform the developer and instead just say "try again" or return made up results.