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Vibe coders accused of fabricating software development timelines

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A new trend has emerged where individuals claiming to be "Vibe coders" are allegedly exaggerating the development time of their software projects. These coders reportedly claim months or years of work on projects, even when their public repositories, such as GitHub, indicate a much shorter development period of only a few days. The author suggests that transparency would be a more effective approach to establishing legitimacy than these perceived falsehoods. AI

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Vibe coders accused of fabricating software development timelines

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    New trend spotted in the wild: I've noticed that Vibe coders are suddenly starting to claim that they have spent months & even years in developing software they

    New trend spotted in the wild: I've noticed that Vibe coders are suddenly starting to claim that they have spent months & even years in developing software they have developed--even if their GitHub repository shows that it was opened only 3 days ago. 🤣 Personally, I think that th…

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