Chris Austin’s Reviews > Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond > Status Update

More bad takes. Vibe coding does not easily make most enterprise devs 10x, unless they were 0.1x to start. It accelerates in some areas, hurts in others, but 10x is wrong.

This quote bugs me, "It's unpredictable, like a slot machine, and sometimes you get a bad pull. That's no reason to give up."

Don't play slot machines. They're designed to be addictive and feel like you're close to winning.

This is so lazy: "Yes, there are certainly security concerns with this, but we have confidence that the industry will create solutions that...". Hope is not a strategy.

Also a bit frustrating to have this comment, ".. requires an OAuth authorization header, whatever that is". Not learning about auth while building systems will go so poorly. Ugh.

A very shallow book so far, with bad takes in a few spots. The worst was on page 39, where they talked about the 2024 DORA report, which said that every 25% increase in genai adoption correlates with 7% worse stability and a 1.5% slowdown in throughput. They described this as the "DORA Anomaly" since it was "at odds with our common experience". This is just confirmation bias.

First 60 pages are skippable.

"Nobody should be writing code by hand anymore if they don't have to" is such a bad take. It's also written by people who stopped writing code, so there's an inherent bias.

I truly hate the term Vibe Coding and am dismayed by the mismatch between hype and reality in the industry right now. I've appreciated Gene's other books though, so I'm giving this book a go to see if it has value for me.