Look, I think there’s probably a charitable and uncharitable read for this.

The charitable read is that people are excited to be able to bring their projects to fruition and want to share it, but don’t realise how much structure is required around that.

There’s probably also a selection pressure that forces most projects into that same shape of “we built”, “we shipped”, “curious to hear your thoughts”.

Reddit is rife with that lingo, but Reddit is also probably 3/4 of the way to Moltbook now.

The other reading is to just assume that this is a symptom of the same influencer hustle culture / LinkedIn brain that’s everywhere in mainstream.

I also think - with enough engineering discipline, project management skills and QC audits, someone competent (but who otherwise lacks programming syntax and fluency) could use AI to create something worthwhile, safe and sane. To my understanding, that’s what PMs do IRL.

Obviously, I’m not saying that most people who vibe code do that or there won’t be bugs or issues. OTOH, you can also say that for hand-coded projects.

Adjacently, there’s also been a trend towards harassment of FOSS developers that’s almost the mirror image of this - the same lack of accountability, just aimed in the opposite direction.

If you didn’t pay for it (and I don’t mean throwing $10 into a ko-fi link, once) don’t expect 24hr Zendesk ticket support. As Bluey is fond of reminding us: you get what you get and you don’t get upset.

Slop code isn’t an AI problem. It’s a people problem.