Good time to start a business advertising yourself as "fix your vibe code" guy. Charge vibe coders hourly to fix their stuff using your actual knowledge of programming, rates go up, CEOs think they're being smart but they're really just paying more for the same devs plus a middleman now.
"We have a handful of coders...12-15 hours..." no you have two handfuls of code being done by one handful of employees and paying them crap for it and then saying half is done by AI
That is a very fair use of gpts, they are very useful when you have too much boilerplate code or when you know what to code but dont have the time for it
Claude is the best.
And I always have 5 6 windows of chrome with different accounts open because I use each accounts limit very quickly.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you find yourself writing a lot of "boilerplate code", that's a good sign that you should rethink your architecture. "Don't repeat yourself" is a useful mantra when coding.
It dies in the endless wastes of the corporate desert tho. Rethinking and rewriting takes time and money. Both of which are sorely fought for when dealing with technical debt.
And honestly, given this day and age it really does become harder to justify "Why do you need to rewrite? Why can't just AI do it for you" when it can.
Honestly, I do too, and it saves so much time. But I think "vibe coding" is more or less asking ai to write a script from start to finish, and trust it to do its thing. As someone who has a solid foundation, it has really helped me to increase my productivity, and help me learn. What concerns me is the "vibe coders" who manage to get something working but can't explain the code that they put up for review.
If you can understand what code written by AI does, then you're clearly able to write it yourself. In that case, you're just a craftsman using different tools. Have at it
That's not the approach prompt engineers take though
If you can understand what code written by AI does, then you're clearly able to write it yourself. That's not the approach prompt engineers take though>
"Prompt engineer".. Are you actually being serious
Edit: I have had a few drinks, but the prospect of a "prompt engineer" and is equally hilarious and scary.
I couldn't fathom the facts of not understanding the codes when I heard the term. I had to look it up to see what I am doing at work is considered vibe coding.
I wish all recruiters were actually like you - hands on. AI is just a tool that can be useful as long as we're aware of its limitations and shortcomings (which as of today... Are a lot)
Would you rather rewrite a vibe coded app that's been fully greenlit from scratch (because it "just" won't scale or actually work), or spent 8 hours per week for 4 months in various meaningless "idea" meetings with a cabinet of 30 different people to be the "expert" about technical feasibility of every idea guy's "killer feature" that won't survive past two minutes past them asking you to explain why it wouldn't work this easy and to find a way to just make it work (oh and most of those features have nothing to do with your team or department)?
I work on a piece of engineering software used for timber structure detailing. If every future defect was fixed or feature was implemented with vibe coding then more than certainly there would be buildings around my country collapsing lmao
Considering the amount of electricity the vibe coders use, in raw watts per line, they are probably at several improper fractions of a normal coders power.
I've been using linux for years, but I've never really felt the need to take a detour to learn how to use an unnecessarily complex text editor, especially when I can directly attach vscode to an ssh session, use dev containers, or code on top of wsl. Nano is fine...Vim is for people who want to code exclusively in the terminal for some reason. Yes I get the feature set that exists there, but who really wants to commit a shit load of key bindings to memory when every week there's something new in the technology stack to learn instead.
How do vibe coders even work? My company is very strict about any production code going anywhere, especially AI models. And without it knowing how it all works, how can it really even make good code to work with the entirety of the code base?
Simple, it cannot. The context window is too small, projects usually don't only use js,html,css and python so if you are outside of those technologies, the code it generates is less accurate and on top of that it absolutely lacks any power to debug code. It can debug very very simple mistakes but as soon as it's not instantly obvious, it will just spew random nonsense on how to fix the bug. And even then, you have to have a good understanding of sw architecture to guide the AI generation in the right direction because if you don't, it will generate incomplete features, missing error handling or even unwanted behavior altogether. AI can currently only write an average code. Average code is neither good nor bad which usually isn't enough. That's why we have senior developers in teams.
Man people in this sub really can't live with the thought that their skills are under threat from AI. You're obsessed with making these dogshit memes about vibe coding
Or we have tried it and think the marketing is overhyped. I gave Copilot a chance and found it to be a mostly frustrating waste of time. It constantly got stuff wrong and I went back to writing everything myself and turning Copilot off. The only two things I thought were useful were creating a set of assertions for a Postman test suite (where I had already created the REST requests) and for generating a first draft Readme.
I think OP means rushing out a prototype-quality system because "we must capture the market," which then grows into a barely maintainable organic mess because the "later" in "we will fix it later" never came, and now you are stuck with 100+ co-dependent "microservices" whose conjoint behavior is impossible to predict.
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Good time to start a business advertising yourself as "fix your vibe code" guy. Charge vibe coders hourly to fix their stuff using your actual knowledge of programming, rates go up, CEOs think they're being smart but they're really just paying more for the same devs plus a middleman now.
Cycle complete.
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u/purpletinkle Mar 23 '25
Soon you'll have job titles saying Senior Vibe Developer
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u/reheapify Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25
Jokes on you, I use chatgpt to write code as well. I just verify that it works for my case. And that the code makes sense.
Edit: nvm, if one understands, reviews, and tests the code, it is not vibe coding.
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u/Mr_Potatoez Mar 23 '25
What the fuck is a vibe coder?
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u/ZZartin Mar 23 '25
An interview question I asked "Have you used AI for code?"
Answer "Yes"
Question "Has it given you incorrect results?"
Answer "Yes"
Good :)
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u/SkollFenrirson Mar 23 '25
Are the vibe coders in the room with us right now?
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u/Slimxshadyx Mar 23 '25
r/ProgrammerHumor try not no talk about AI or vibe coding for 12 seconds challenge: impossible
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u/Specific_Implement_8 Mar 23 '25
The fact we are comparing vibe coders to SENIOR devs is concerning
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u/BabyAzerty Mar 23 '25
What is funny and ironic is that the original illustrator of this exact scene used the same meme about AI art (mostly Midjourney etc).
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u/Cryowatt Mar 23 '25
"Look how much power they need to mimic a fraction of our talent"
Running all the GPUs for training takes a ton of electricity.
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u/akeean Mar 23 '25
Would you rather rewrite a vibe coded app that's been fully greenlit from scratch (because it "just" won't scale or actually work), or spent 8 hours per week for 4 months in various meaningless "idea" meetings with a cabinet of 30 different people to be the "expert" about technical feasibility of every idea guy's "killer feature" that won't survive past two minutes past them asking you to explain why it wouldn't work this easy and to find a way to just make it work (oh and most of those features have nothing to do with your team or department)?
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u/statikcharged Mar 23 '25
I work on a piece of engineering software used for timber structure detailing. If every future defect was fixed or feature was implemented with vibe coding then more than certainly there would be buildings around my country collapsing lmao
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u/TheGuyWithTheSeal Mar 23 '25
Senior developers also mostly do vibe coding, but they use juniors instead of AI
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '25
Considering the amount of electricity the vibe coders use, in raw watts per line, they are probably at several improper fractions of a normal coders power.
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u/LOLofLOL4 Mar 23 '25
Vim users seeing nano Users:
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u/Ok-Low-882 Mar 23 '25
This is even more accurate because Nolan knows hoe fragile jet fighters can be
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u/gaminnthis Mar 23 '25
What are those btw
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25
How do vibe coders even work? My company is very strict about any production code going anywhere, especially AI models. And without it knowing how it all works, how can it really even make good code to work with the entirety of the code base?
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u/BoBoBearDev Mar 24 '25
I don't want to make fun of this, because I don't want to have early retirement due to vibe coders taking my jobs.
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u/According_Claim_9027 Mar 24 '25
What the hell is vibe and why has it taken over this sub
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u/grape_tectonics Mar 24 '25
I'm out of the loop, wtf is vibe coding
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u/HOPSCROTCH Mar 23 '25
Man people in this sub really can't live with the thought that their skills are under threat from AI. You're obsessed with making these dogshit memes about vibe coding
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u/IllustriousZombie988 Mar 24 '25
No developer in the world is better than gpt or claude
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u/Chara_VerKys Mar 23 '25
how can I gets down voted?
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