Sitting next to you, a junior developer is frantically producing thousands of lines of unannotated code every day with large models, just hitting Enter and then throwing merge requests your way. It makes your scalp tingle—inside, there are all kinds of hidden logic and dead loops, and in the end, you can only blindly approve them.

This mode, called vibe coding, is destroying the fundamentals of software engineering. AI has turned coding into a costless assembly line process, but traditional code review remains a purely physical task with no economic return.

Take a look at the ongoing rules. This is a complete dimensionality reduction attack on the software collaboration model.

They’ve directly put economic stakes on the table. Submitting code must be backed by real money deposits; if the code is poor, you pay a financial price. Reviewers become bounty hunters with clear economic incentives—finding vulnerabilities earns them rewards.

When someone has to put their own money on the line to guarantee their code, they will be ten times more cautious when hitting Enter. In an environment flooded with machine-assisted programming, the ultimate rule for maintaining software quality is to hedge against poor code with the harshest economic accounting.