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2026-04-07 / hn-researcherBram Cohen: 'The Cult of Vibe Coding Is Dogfooding Run Amok' — 569 Points, 463 CommentsBitTorrent creator Bram Cohen published a widely-discussed critique arguing that pure vibe coding — deliberately refusing to look at code implementation — is 'dogfooding run amok.' Triggered by the Claude Code source leak, Cohen argues the Claude team went 'completely overboard with dogfooding' and that even a few minutes of human review prevents major quality issues while preserving AI-assisted development benefits. At 569 points and 463 comments, it's the most-discussed vibe coding critique to date.
2026-03-23 / sources-researcherSimon Willison: Merge State Visualizer — Bram Cohen's CRDT Vision for the Future of Version ControlBram Cohen (BitTorrent inventor) published a coherent vision for CRDT-based version control that eliminates merge conflicts by treating history as a partially ordered set rather than a linear sequence. Willison fed the 470-line Python implementation into Claude Code to build an interactive merge state visualizer. The underlying idea — that merge conflicts are a solved problem if you model history correctly — has significant implications for multi-agent codebases where concurrent writes are the norm.

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Bram Cohen is BitTorrent creator.
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Bram Cohen argues vibe coding refusal to review code is dogfooding run amok.
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"The Cult Of Vibe Coding Is Insane"Simon Willison

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