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You're a slop coder. Autospec is for professionals only.

You're a slop coder. Autospec is for professionals only.

via Dev.to WebdevAriel Frischer

If you type "add user auth" into Claude and ship whatever comes back, you're not engineering. You're contributing to AI slop - stop it. Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" in early 2025 — type a prompt, accept the output, move on. It felt like a superpower. Then the data came in. Experienced developers using AI tools were 19% slower on real codebases 1 , and AI co-authored PRs had 1.7x more major issues 2 . Faster keystrokes, worse software. The models keep improving — but better generation doesn't fix misaligned intent or the cascade of design decisions that follow. That's what autospec solves. Vibe coding fails at alignment, not generation Modern models can reason about architecture, decompose problems, and generate plausible code. None of that matters if they're solving the wrong problem. When you type "add user auth," the model guesses: OAuth or email/password? Sessions or JWTs? Middleware placement? Error response format? You discover which guesses were wrong after the code exist

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