Comment by onion2k
It's more wild that everyone's first reaction to seeing a new product is "probably vibe-coded AI slop". We held so little respect for the craft of software engineering that AI managed to kill it completely in about two years.
It's more wild that everyone's first reaction to seeing a new product is "probably vibe-coded AI slop". We held so little respect for the craft of software engineering that AI managed to kill it completely in about two years.
Pictures on websites have always been either stolen from other sites a long time ago, then stock pictures from Unsplash or Pexels for a while, and now they're AI because that's just the easiest way to get images now. I don't think it's fair to developers to assume that the ones using AI generated images are also vibe-coding the software though. It's not like the ones writing hand-crafted artisanal code are also out with their cameras taking pictures for the website after all.
FWIW I don't disagree with you. I also assume people are vibe-coding things. I just don't think it's fair to assume that means the devs are taking that code and firing it straight up to a production server. They're probably fixing the problems and making it better. I know I do that in my code (most of the time.)
They could at least not keep a picture that shows them with eleven fingers, though (https://web.archive.org/web/20251231080727/https://www.gitmo...)
The fact that the websites pictures are all AI generated isn't exactly a great sign.