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we're about to see a world-historical flowers for algernon moment as thousands of vibe coding developers, allowed the use of Claude Fable 5 in their Claude Code subscriptions for a brief moment, are asked to begin paying $100-200 per session for their tokens

The better it is at coding, the worse the problem becomes for society. What oversight is there against people using it to code all sorts of dangerous self-propagating programs that can do all sorts of things on the internet?

Yes, but the difference is that it used to be something that could only be done by people who had learned to code, which isn't the easiest thing to do. Now any idiot with "A great idea" can stumble upon something destructive that is far beyond their capacity to understand.

generally programs can't "self-propagate"

the issue is that as we move from human vetted code to vibe coding there is immense trust that the machine will not insert anything unwanted, devious, or dangerous

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the best devs don’t write much greenfield code. the best devs reuse existing, proven patterns as much as possible (which it turns out can be a significant majority of the delivered code) LLM code is effectively 100% greenfield code