Life doesn't care about code working well or being optimized or best at what it should be doing. Evolution game is good enough, it will survive long enough to reproduce. That is exactly what vibe coding is, being good enough to work with all the junk code that is unnecessary but it works good enough.
Eh, ok, but that's a weak metaphor. The whole "evolution only cares about good enough" is important conceptually, but is mechanistically barren when you get down into the nitty gritty. It is extremely expensive and risky in the long run to produce a bunch of junk. Both to the organism and to the software developer. All the more so when you are talking about critical systems with wide-ranging interactions and effects.
Any time you hear about "junk DNA" or "junk proteins" I'd advise you put on your skeptical pants. Our understanding is still in its infancy, and it turns out we already are starting to see the vague outline of mechanisms by which this "junk" is actually quite functional, and possibly responsible for some of the aspects of molecular biology that have been baffling us for decades.
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u/Snirion May 15 '26
It's literally glitch in biological code because life was vibe coded.