> TL;DR: My take on AI for programming and "vibe coding" is that it will do to software engineering what fast fashion did to the clothing industry: flood the ma

> TL;DR: My take on AI for programming and "vibe coding" is that it will do to software engineering what fast fashion did to the clothing industry: flood the market with cheap, low-quality products and excessive waste. This metaphor is too limiting though. You can do so much more with software than you can with clothes. Take a look at what injidup wrote. People are creating small home brewed projects for personal use. So a lot of "fast fashion software" is going to be used at home. And let's face it, for our own home brewed projects for personal use, standards have always been lower because we know our own requirements. I think in this "shadow economy of personal software use", LLMs are a boon.