AI coding tools are genuinely revolutionizing the software industry, but more than almost anything I have ever seen, they fall into the category of things you maybe shouldn’t try at home without significant prior experience:Ujjwal Chadha@ujjwalscriptStories of vibe coded disasters piling up on Reddit
Unless YOU intervene and build out a structure for AI, it is going to push slop. 7:03 AM · Apr 26, 2026 · 167K Views247 Replies · 147 Reposts · 1.58K LikesAnd, see especially this long, thoughtful report of another case, which has gone completely viral. Excerpt from a long essay worth reading.Such a total failure was, of course, totally predictable (as I noted on X in a tweet with around 2 million views), and unsurprising in a system that mimics data without truly understanding what was asked of it.And I am sure we will see many more catastrophic failures soon enough, involving things like privacy, security and data loss. Already there have been many.But what does this have to do with Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei? And who is to blame? And what does it all mean? §I’ll get to the latter two questions in a moment. Perhaps the most important point, one that goes well beyond coding, is at the end.But, first, the reason that I bring up Amodei is his steady hype for AI coding, and especially this, from a couple day ago:AI Edge@aiedge_Anthropic CEO (Dario Amodei):
