Ask HN: Will vibe coded spaghetti code lead to unmaintainable software?

by roschdalon 1/18/2026, 11:16 AMwith 4 comments

by andyjohnson0on 1/18/2026, 1:51 PM

We may not be the ones doing the maintenance. An LLM may be able to maintain spaghetti code. A human, less so.

by thinkingemoteon 1/18/2026, 12:23 PM

Job security via code obscurity.

More careers to maintain and unentangle and rewrite such code bases.

by aristofunon 1/18/2026, 1:34 PM

I have a good news for you: the code is already unmaintanable.

by ale_jacqueson 1/18/2026, 12:49 PM

Yes. It already does.