The Cult Of Vibe Coding Is Insane

Bram Cohen criticizes the extreme dogfooding culture around vibe coding, using a leaked Claude source code incident as a case study. He argues that pure vibe coding — refusing to even look at the code being generated — is a myth and leads to poor software quality. The real value of AI-assisted development comes from human-AI collaboration: reading the codebase, identifying problems, discussing them with the AI, and then letting it execute. Cohen shares his own workflow of auditing codebases with AI and argues that bad software quality is a deliberate choice, not an inevitable consequence of using AI tools.