One sad thing I’ve noticed due to vibe-coding is the amount of slop packages being spewed out for niche-but-hip languages like Common Lisp and Erlang. The lisp subreddit has a guy pulling up with a bunch of vibe-coded stuff, and somebody on Something Awful turned up with a CLI forums client that forwards through NNTP (???) written in Elixir that everyone thought was kinda neat for a second until they realized it was mostly slop.

Hard to say it’s making these language ecosystems any more “alive” if it’s all stuff that has to be re-evaluated and probably replaced entirely. And it definitely seems like Yegge isn’t the only one using this stuff to make absolute fever-dream architectural decisions that wouldn’t even be a consideration if they had to write it all themselves.