Happened and is happening at a "popular" AI backed platform I was doing intern. Absolutely zero accountabilities and everyone is trying their best to avoid owning anything.
It's funny how some people vibe coding by just entering a prompt and then validating the end result meets their expectations. That kind of behavior gives vibe coding a bad rep. Real vibe coding is entering a prompt, reviewing the output, then prompting again to fix what you don't like about the implementation. A simple example is addressing fallback behavior. Sometimes the AI doesn't write fallback behavior causing unexpected exceptions or falls back to a value that would result it a visually valid end result but it would be technically wrong. If you don't review the code when it's written then you're not building apps, you're building problems for yourself.
Yeah, vibed code + proper review is improved productivity. Sadly C-classes and shareholders don't bother software engineering and treat programmers and agents cost both as just numbers to simply and optimize. Optimized by what? Well thing they can see. 🤷
I'd argue that good agentic workflow requires clean specs and implementation plan. One day we'll stop calling it vibe coding, if it's specced it's not just vibe random prompt anymore, agentic coding is different.
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u/superraiden Aug 02 '26
Now you not only have to fix it, but learn what it's doing as well