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The first of many bugs that are beyond the complexity of its authors, thanks to comprehension debt.

Even with tests, the more complex the code base is, the more risky it is to vibe-code on it without introducing more bugs [0] and increasing the debt. Does not matter if the CI is green or if all the tests pass.

It gets even worse if you can't explain the change / pull request or what the implications are after applying that "suggested" fix.

[0] https://sketch.dev/blog/our-first-outage-from-llm-written-co...



There are going to be sooooo many consulting opportunities after this wave.




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