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Maybe the real question is: who cares?

What’s the downside risk of having "worse software" when you’re just ideating and putting things out there to see how people like it.

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Your idea can be great, but if the implementing is bad, people still may not like it, and you’ll never know that’s the cause.

And manager types in software still haven't figured out that prototypes should not be the final product. In engineering it's common knowledge and only rarely do you take a proof of concept directly to production.

Worst case:

- release vibe coded tool

- on HN, someone says, d'oh, you should be using Y, not X

- give that comment to your LLM

- LLM: "The commenter on Hacker News is absolutely right, my mistake. I can easily replace X with Y if you want"

- release a new, better version of vibe coded tool

Iteration, in one afternoon.

Hahaha. It'll say what you bring up is absolutely right egardless of whether it's a better option. These LLMs use a training technique (RLHF) that placates the user and keeps them burning tokens. It's optimizing for human approval, not correctness.

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