I interview C++ developers often, and here in 2026 it seems pretty much everyone is using modern (C++20 and up) language versions.

Maybe the tooling finally caught up.

Benign cancers are a thing. They might not kill like they show in the Hollywood movies, but your quality of life will be significantly diminished.

Squamous cell carcinoma does not metastatize, but my god it can disfigure people really badly if not treated in time.

Remember OpenClaw?

You know why nobody talks about it anymore? Because the project has been vibe coded to death in the span of a few months.

Not only will it happen, it's literally happening right now in front of our eyes.

Do you have any evidence that the code quality of OpenClaw is to blame for its decline in popularity?

I would say far more likely is that its creator was acqui-hired and Anthropic banned OpenClaw usage.

The reality is that AI is both capable of producing sloppy code and capable of cleaning it up, if directed to do so, just like humans.

And, just like humans, code quality is very rarely the make or break factor between success and failure in business, much less popularity.

In the case of vibe-coded slop like OpenClaw it's not a question of some vague notion of "code quality", it's a case of the software shitting the bed and not working anymore, with no recourse of fixing it. (Neither humans nor LLMs have the context window to analyse and fix tens of millions of lines of code slop.)

> and Anthropic banned OpenClaw usage

If OpenClaw wasn't broken it would just use a standard token API.

But see above - as software it is fundamentally broken and unfixable.

Most people aren't in the US.

> do they perform a lot of painting job on their tools to hide the cracks?

Yes. That is what RLHF is.

It works magically if your prejudices happen to match their training set alignment.

Damn, now if only I could find 10 engineers!

A billion bucks, here I come!

Don't harsh my vibes, man.

> if it considers them insecure

But that's all of them though?