Right. You don’t review the machine code or the interaction with registers and branch prediction. If the behavior matches the desired outcome what does it matter?

The classic consideration is, this code will need to be maintained, built on top of… but it’s not like that was ever a solved problem, big projects remain fragile and corporate turnover means no one knows the entire stack. So I see the vibe code out there as just another imperfect way to build barely good enough software.

I’ve also written code I built slowly and intentionally as a piece of art, beautiful code I was proud of. Didn’t make me any money :)