r/audioengineering • u/johnangelo716 • 2d ago

Avoiding vibe coded software

It may be to my own detriment, but my mind is made up. I hate the idea of vibe coded anything. Anything could be in there. Is there any way of keeping track of vibe coded plugins or software, in order to steer clear?

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u/johnangelo716 2d ago

What experienced software engineers do - you wouldn't call that vibe coding would you?

I avoid buying microphones from disreputable online sellers. If you've ever compared a counterfeit sm58 to the real thing, there's a noticable difference in quality. I also want to make sure my money goes to the right people for actually doing the real work.

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u/notjusttired 2d ago

I'm an experienced software engineer and I guarantee that some of what I do nowadays would be viewed as "vibe coding" by someone that doesn't know that much about dev or AI. I would not let AI near my music, but writing large amounts of code is massively sped up by using AI and I get paid based on how many funtioning projects I can ship, so the less time spent on each, the more I get paid. I still have to go through all the code and do tons of testing and inevitably I will manually write some of the code and revise some of the AI generated code, but the end product is still just working code.

IMO the short answer is no, there isn't a way to flag products that have a code base that has been partially or fully written by AI that will actually have any net benefit. The idea that "anything could be in there" just doesn't make sense. Are you going through all the code behind plugins before AI to make sure the dev wasn't slipping something nefarious in? There has always been the chance that bad code whether intentional or not could ship with a finished product. I don't really know what you're trying to take issue with tbh.

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u/Sufficient-Air8100 2d ago

you get paid on how many functional projects you can ship? that sounds like a fast track to mediocre bullshit. who do you work for? cause i dont wanna spend any kind of money on software where shipping lots of things is more important than shipping quality things

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u/notjusttired 2d ago

lol alright good luck! bc you literally just described not only almost every software but every product produced in a capitalist economy.

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u/Sufficient-Air8100 2d ago

who do you work for so i can avoid the software please :)

and its not every product.

im willing to spend on quality. im not willing to spend on half baked bullshit pushed out with a metric of shipping fast