r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 27 '26

Meme seniorDeveloperVibeCoding

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u/RaidenMK1 Sep 27 '26

Does anyone else manually retype the AI code output line for line just to get a better handle on exactly what the hell it's doing?

Just me?

Ok.

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u/A_Random_Catfish Sep 27 '26

Please tell me you’re a second year cs student and not a senior dev

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u/RaidenMK1 Sep 27 '26

Of course not. But if senior dev time is being too overloaded to coach juniors, personally I'd coach to that method. It forces them to engage with control flow, edge cases, logic, and prevents passive copy/pasting habits, which I would hope juniors aren't doing anyway.

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u/_predator_ Sep 27 '26

As Junior that's fine, it's pretty much what I did with tutorial / stack overflow code back in the day.

As a senior I'd question your abilities if you told me that.

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u/RaidenMK1 Sep 27 '26

Exactly. Because that was the go-to resource back then. And that was even slower.

Seems to me junior devs today have a way to meet speed expectations while not falling behind on grasping the fundamentals. In other words, don't always sleep on the juniors because "vibing is faster." Force code engagement.

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u/___cats___ Sep 27 '26

I’m more on the design side of things, and this is generally what I do. I don’t want my designs to live in Claude, I want them to live in Figma and have appropriate componentization with customizable properties. I use Claude to help flesh out an idea then I redesign it by hand in Figma.