It’s interesting to see how propagandized the story is, according to the penguin & pufferfish. (I forget if they even have names) Apparently, they were apathetic cannibals who only left their bunker so they could eat more people and fuck up the world.

My best guess of the actual situation would be the mata inheritors were narcissistic and thought they would be the saviors of the destroyed world, quietly steamrolling all of the other survivors in their attempt to ‘rebuild civilization’ and essentially colonize the apocalypse.

Penguin & pufferfish, likely being descendants of the unmata survivors, inherited the original survivors’ perspective on the events.

A few names: “I didn’t do that” “Works with most nothing” “Damages not guaranteed” “Left as an exercise for the reader” “Debugged for your pleasure” “Designed for failure” “Title not withstanding” “Frankly, I don’t know what’s going on” “Woke up too late”

From my experience, being “good” at vibe coding is more about being unable to detect flaws in AI generated code rather than being able to code well. Add AI to the workflow of someone who actually understands scalability and maintenance and that won’t be able to get past a couple functions before they drop the AI.

Also, assuming this kid gets weekends off, he would be writing 12k lines of code each day. I don’t think the average programmer could even review that number of lines in a day, so there’s likely no actual supervision for what the kid is feeding into the codebase.

I’d estimate within four months the project will be impenetrable, and they’ll scrap the whole thing.