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I kinda wish I could look at the code, but it's not open source and the frontend sources are minified/obfuscated, but it's long and looks like it's using React and a css-in-react approach, which also generates a ton of code.

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The term "vibe coding" gives me bad vibes, I feel that it is in some way an insult to my craft, the way a carpenter might feel about Ikea. But if only LLM's are going to read the code, the LoC aren't a big problem, increasing cost significantly less than if a real person would have to read it.

The two biggest issues I can think of with this approach is performance and security, with the first one only being a problem if you "make it", and the second one being too often ignored with or without vibe coding.

That IKEA comparison is an awesome, perfect analogy of vibe coding as cheap shitty furniture.

- can't be maintained over time, gonna need to replace it

- mostly simple/basic furniture

- out of place in any existing environment

- easy to break (cardboard tables!)

Sometimes that's all you need though.

I keep thinking of Visual Basic... It was scoffed at as not real programming... It was the drag and drop thing in the Visual Basic IDE that made it worse. Suddenly "anyone" could do it without really knowing programming. This new trend (if it is a trend) is sort of like drag and drop.

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