We recognize slop because it's slop. Just because a bunch of people are submitting slop to open source projects doesn't mean that AI can only generate slop.

His argument is basically a tautology "People who don't know how to code write bad code. Therefore, tools that help people who don't know how to code produce bad code"

Vibe coding has its place. Some time ago I had to diagnose some strange memory behaviour in a VM, for which I could have either spent a lot of time reading manpages and not-quite-correct StackOverflow posts to find the correct commands and options I needed to track down the problem, or I could have asked Claude to do the legwork for me. I ended up solving, or at least seeing the cause of, the problem in minutes rather than hours.

Now, would I ask Claude to write the memory-allocator code that ran things in the first place? Hell no. But it was a very useful tool to use as a souped-up search engine that summarised the results and turn them into a bash script for me that displayed the info I needed.