> This shouldn’t really matter, software can also be written by very bad coders.
The issue is that there is a non-zero likelihood that a vibe coder pushes code he doesn’t even understand how it actually works. At least a bad coder had to have written the thing themselves in the first place.
For something safety critical, individual programmers shouldn’t be able to push code directly anyway. However, a vibe-coder spamming the process with bad code could cause it to jam up, and prevent forward progress (assuming the project has a well designed safe process).
I guess I did assume, though, that by “in any safety-critical place” they meant a place with a well-defined and rigorous process (surely there’s some safety-critical code out there written by seat-of-the-pants cowboys, but that is just a catastrophe waiting to happen).
The issue is that there is a non-zero likelihood that a vibe coder pushes code he doesn’t even understand how it actually works. At least a bad coder had to have written the thing themselves in the first place.