The vibe coded aspect of this article seems quite irrelevant to me. If I read this correctly, an exec team (or just CEO?) got sold a terrible piece of software without proper vetting. Very bad software has existed for a long time, and this is an age-old story. Vibe-coded garbage perhaps has increased the volume of terrible stuff to wade through, but is secondary to a familiar story of dumb leaders making dumb decisions.
klabb3|3 months ago
IMO not really, because of your own point:
> Vibe-coded garbage perhaps has increased the volume of terrible stuff to wade through
This is not a hypothetical, nor an incremental difference. People are drowning in garbage, and if they don’t use garbage generation themselves, they get pushed out because they have to review a ton of garbage and they have to bump their stats (CLOC, PRs etc).
> but is secondary to a familiar story of dumb leaders making dumb decisions.
Well, sure. Both can be true. The social lessons will take a long time. MBA style leadership doctrines typically last for a decade or more, until overwhelming anecdotal evidence pushes them into the next hype. In the meantime, we’re definitely in for a ride.
godelski|3 months ago
Disney is the best example here. Iger recently suggested Disney+ users could make short form personalized content using Disney characters. This is very surprising to hear from a company who is extremely protective of those characters and the image of those characters. We do not yet have control over these image and video generation such that we can absolutely prevent certain classes of generation from happening. If they go through with it I'll give it a week (a month tops) before someone is able to generate porn with it. But hey, maybe the hit in stock will not be greater than the rise from the hype. But maybe that's part of the problem. Though they also don't appear to be getting any of that hype money either...