Vibe Coding Our Way to Disaster
Vibe Coding to Disaster: Why AI Makes Software Too Easy to Write (Revisiting Rich Hickey’s Software Principles)
Summary
Most people mistakenly treat AI like regular software, believing its bugs can be directly fixed and its behavior logically understood, but modern AI systems are fundamentally different.
Issues in AI stem mainly from vast, opaque training data rather than identifiable coding mistakes, making them unpredictable and difficult to control or debug precisely. Unlike traditional software, AI cannot reliably meet predefined specifications, and undesired behaviors can reemerge unpredictably even after retraining.