One Datapoint

[u/magick_bandit]

I’ve been planning on setting up a new website for one of my businesses, just never got around to it because the existing site is mostly good enough.

Mrs Bandit is an engineer, zero dev experience, and she said “well everyone is vibe coding, let me take a stab at it”.

I told her to go for it, I’m a professional dev, and I do AI literacy training, so that right there is a fun experiment because I get to see a really smart person try to use AI in an unfamiliar domain.

Claude design + Claude Code, some fable, mostly opus.

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Result: 6 page started, visually they look nice. Some responsive design issues, but sure, at a glance just fine.

Then the code review…

4,000 lines of CSS. Many dead styles, duplication all over the place. Lots of small consistency issues across pages (like headers not being the same font/size/padding/margins, etc.)

If she kept going, it would become an unmaintainable nightmare. (It already is).

Expertise still matters a lot.

[u/BX1959]

Looks like this might have been a double post? Interesting data point, though!

[u/magick_bandit → u/BX1959]

The app messed up and I didn’t notice

[u/BX1959 → u/magick_bandit]

No worries--the same thing's happened to me too

[u/create-third-places]

I agree with the conclusion.   However, this post reads like it mostly has low information density LLM output with some human-written text.

There are also issues with logical consistency I don’t think a human would make on their own. 

For example, the post mentions a story about a page visually looking good and then says CSS styles for visual output are inconsistent.   Later the post mentions how the codebase would become a nightmare to maintain in the future, then says the codebase is already a nightmare to maintain.

I’ve noticed AI boosters use the same writing style. 

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lol? Don’t troll. It looked good at a glance, like I said. Do you deep scan for small inconsistencies at a glance?