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Simon Willison: “Vibe coding your way to a production codebase is clearly a terrible idea”

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· Software development · on his blog, about what he told Ars Technica: fine for prototypes and low-stakes projects, the risk is in maintaining production systems

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“Vibe coding your way to a production codebase is clearly a terrible idea.”

— Simon Willison, simonwillison.net, 06.03.2025 ↗

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✓ checked against the source — checked against the author's blog; Wikipedia paraphrases it more softly as “clearly risky”

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