This article is premised on a shallow notion of testing. Because of this, the author lacks a conceptual toolkit to discuss product risk. He speaks of the most important part of the testing process (human thinking and judgment) as if it were “the most boring job in the world” and then later contradicts that by speaking of “testing the tests” as if that were a qualitatively different process (it’s not, it’s exactly the same cognitive process as what he called boring).

The overall effect is to use the word “test” as if it were a magical concept that you plaster onto your work to give it unearned prestige.

What the article demonstrates is that vibe coding is a way to generate orders of magnitude of complexity that no one in the world can understand and no one can take real responsibility for, even in principle.

I call it slop-coding, and I am happy to slop-code throwaway tools. I instruct Claude never to “test” anything I ask it to create, because I need to test it myself in order to apply it responsibly and feel close to it. If I want automated output checking (a waste of time with most tools I create), I can slop-code a framework for that, a la carte.

This way it burns fewer tokens of silly shallow testing.