More than doubting their usefulness, I wonder whether they’re hurting/slowing people more than they’re helping.

There are study as well as anecdotes of people giving up vibe coding because it takes more effort to review and fix sloppy code than writing it yourself.

I occasionally come accros a well written online tutorial that seems to answer the exact problem I’m trying to solve. And later realize it’s a complete dead end with made up API/function names but it looks really convincing. Those are likely AI-generated tutorials with severe hallucinations and bad/zero disclosure.

I’m now blacklisting whole websites using ublock to avoid wasting more of my time reading that.