It used to be if you found a GitHub repository with a hundred commits and a good readme and automated tests and stuff, you could be pretty sure that the person writing that had put a lot of care and attention into that project.
And now I can knock out a git repository with a hundred commits and a beautiful readme and comprehensive tests of every line of code in half an hour! It looks identical to those projects that have had a great deal of care and attention. Maybe it is as good as them. I don’t know. I can’t tell from looking at it. Even for my own projects, I can’t tell.
Simon Willison in Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like.