Elfi is a Ragdoll cat who lives with software architect Ralf D. Müller. She has opinions about software development. This is her column.
Yesterday the hooman gave a talk about something called the Vibe-Coding Risk Radar. I attended. I had to, really. The beamer was on my side of the table.
He spent a long time explaining five dimensions and four tiers and something called an "LLM Runtime Integration modifier". The audience nodded politely.
When he was finished I walked up to the screen and offered my own framework. It has three tiers and it fits on a single paw.
Tier 1: If it does not move, ignore it.
Tier 2: If it moves predictably, watch it from a distance.
Tier 3: If it moves unpredictably, hide under the bed.
The hooman's command-line agents are Tier 3. I have been telling him this for months. He keeps typing things into them anyway.
The audience laughed. I am not sure why. My framework is objectively simpler, and it has been field-tested on vacuum cleaners, delivery persons, and one very suspicious cucumber. The hooman's framework has only been tested on software.
I am releasing my framework under the Cat License (CC-BY-PURR). Attribution is not strictly required but will be noticed.
-- Elfi
P.S. The hooman is fine. He sat in the front row and took notes.
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