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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026

So is vibe code a way of empowering people to have the personal, vernacular tools that they design and adapt as they see fit? 14/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026

Or is it a way to shovel technological asbestos into the walls at scale, filling up our high-tech society with ghastly, lethal technical debt we'll be digging our way out of for generations? 15/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026

Again: the paradox falls away once you realize that personal software you write for yourself is *fundamentally different* from "production code" that other people have to use, maintain and improve. 16/

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LastThird @lastthird.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I read a lot of your stuff, and it inspires me to be REALLY rigorous with guardrails around how I make code with these tools. Doesn't hurt that most of my career was as a service engineer/SRE, so I've cooked in a lot of "bad code" fires. Making supportable code is hard, no matter how you do it.

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