Jane Street's Yaron Minsky worried by vibe-coding codebases in languages he can't read
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-28
Jane Street's Yaron Minsky says he has mixed feelings about a talk: he praises its reflections on appreciating both what was and what's to come, but finds the speaker's claim of vibe-coding huge codebases in a language he can't even read "more worrisome" — a senior engineer's warning about AI code outgrowing human comprehension.
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