Comment on “Slop Coding” and Responsible Testers by John Waterhouse

I think there will be a lot of money to be made unpicking vibe-coded production software, in the not too distant future. Lowering the bar for code creation is going to be very good for the tester, I predict.

Feels like AI is just the latest in a long line of abstractions. It has lowered the effort/bar to code things like tool generation significantly. I can create a bunch of things that are essentially disposable, to help with the job at hand. Really good shout about the need to be clear what it is, as people get all excited when things look shiny. I have witnessed many high paid/smart people wonder why there is months work to get from a clickable Figma design to the product...

I might use disposable. Which is definitely less effort than all the caveats I have adding.

[James' Reply: Disposable? That's interesting.]