What Cory Doctorow thinks about vibe coding

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and activist, a special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the author of the daily link blog Pluralistic. He coined the word "enshittification" in 2022 to name the way platforms decay, and it was the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2023.

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1. 25 Sept 2026

   Our readingVibe-coding is risky mainly when the code is written for other people to use, not for the author's own use.

   Their wordsI am highly skeptical of vibe-coding in the sense of writing code for other people to use.

   ↗Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026)pluralistic.net 1st of 3 in this piece