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I have a theory that it's partly because a bunch of older StackOverflow answers have more votes than newer ones using new features. More referring to not using relatively new features as much as it should.
I'd wager that the votes are irrelevant. Stock overflow is generously <50% good code and is mostly people saying 'this code doesn't work -- why?' and that is the corpus these models were trained on.
I've yet to see something like a vibe coding livestream where something got done. I can only find a lot of 'tutorials' that tell how to set up tools. Anyone want to provide one?
I could.. possibly.. imagine a place where someone took quality code from a variety of sources and generate a model that was specific to a single language, and that model was able to generate good code, but I don't think we have that.
Vibe coders: Even if your code works and seems to be a success, do you know why it works, how it works? Does it handle edge cases you didn't include in your prompt? Does it expose the database to someone smarter than the LLM? Does it grant an attacker access to the computer it's running on, if they are smarter than the LLM? Have you asked your LLM how many 'r's are in strawberry?
At the very least, we will have a cyber-security crisis due to vibe coding; especially since there seems to be a high likelihood of HR and Finance vibe coders who think they can do the traditional IT/Dev work without understanding what they are doing and how to do it safely.