[ExI] AI 'Vibe' Coding of applications

Stuart LaForge avant at sollegro.com
Mon May 19 15:06:59 UTC 2025


On 2025-05-19 05:51, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2025 at 23:56, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I hope somebody human is looking through that code for backdoors and
>> other mischief. This seems more of a recipe for misalignment than it
>> does AGI.
>> 
> Well, it looks as though the answer is 'No, humans won't be checking 
> the code'.
> That task is too boring and hard work for our new generation of web 
> designers.
> Security and future maintenance will be later problems for somebody 
> else!
> BillK
> 
> See:  <https://www.freethink.com/artificial-intelligence/vibe-coding>
> Quote:
> At its core, it’s about collaborating with AI through natural language
> to build software, focusing on the “vibe” or essence of what you want
> to create rather than the technical implementation. You describe your
> vision, and the AI handles the code generation. When errors occur, you
> don’t dive into debugging line by line — you simply explain the issue
> to the AI and let it propose solutions.
> -------------------

Well that sucks. Vibe coding could easily lead to AI developing their 
own inscrutable programming languages that humans won't be able to 
understand. Like Brainfuck on steroids.
https://www2.gvsu.edu/miljours/bf.html

Stuart LaForge


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