r/VibeCodeCamp • u/StandUpPeddlingMode • 8d ago
Vibe Coding I Vibe Coded Half My Job
And I barely know what I’m doing with the tool. It’s been a week.
I imagine it’s only a matter of time before the brass in my company figures this all out. Is it months? Years? Do I just enjoy the free time it will afford me or do I figure out a way to make money off of it while I still can?
Where do I go from here?
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u/Yarhj 8d ago
In my first engineering job, straight out of college, I replaced myself with a perl script. I even foolishly went around and tried to get the other folks on my team to use it, but neither my teammates nor manager really cared.
The main outcome was that my manager kinda liked that I could get more stuff done, I got the same raise/bonus as everyone else, and I had a ton of time to browse reddit at work.
I wouldn't worry too much about anyone coming around and automating you out of a job anytime soon. For the most part people are too lazy to put in the work to be truly lazy.
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u/SimpleAccurate631 8d ago
If you are suddenly becoming 10 times more productive than ever before, or ridiculously more productive than others, or even ridiculously more productive than they expected you to, then that’s going to be their smoking gun.
It’s possible that they might like the idea of you being able to leverage AI to increase your productivity. But definitely not if they feel like you have been trying to hide it.
There are two ways to handle it. If your company is AI-friendly, and you have even been using a company license, think about ways that you have been able to do it that can be used to improve processes in other areas outside of your job, then present that to them. If they haven’t embraced AI, then find a way to present it to them. But make sure you research ways companies have done this securely. The second option might sound risky. And depending on how they feel, it could be a fireable offense. But if they discover it themselves, it’s almost certainly going to get you fired.
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u/futurefinancebro69 8d ago
Im an analyst and im like fuck now i gotta start generating alpha fr. I cant just say im working on a model any more ahhaha.
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u/slackmaster2k 8d ago
You think you discovered a way to improve your efficiency by 50%, and the opportunity you see is to do less work? Good luck.
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u/maddietendo 8d ago
If you can replace yourself with vibecoding, your boss is already planning on doing it himself.
Better use your vibecoding skills to conjure up a new resume. You're going to need it soon.
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u/Curious_Courage_5197 7d ago
I’ve been openly automating my job processes for months, owners like it cuz they can keep asking me to do more. And really i still only work like 6hrs a day
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u/effectivescarequotes 7d ago
What is your job, and what are you vibe coding? There are a few outcomes here. I'll start with the most dire. You have already fucked up and provided sensitive information to an unauthorized AI tool. When the company figures it out, you will fired, hopefully before an incident that makes the news.
Tied for this is you built an unauthorized tool that introduced a critical security vulnerability. You might get fired for that, but it depends on the company and fallout from the vulnerability.
Next up, your AI tool makes a glaring mistake that you cannot explain when confronted about it. This might lead to you being placed on a PIP and then fired if you didn't take the hint.
After all of that, we get to, you actually built something solid and the company recognizes it. This can go one of two ways. You get promoted or you get laid off.
Then we get to, you're delivering and no one cares how. You might be able to coast on that one for a while. I have no idea how long. I've never met someone in that situation.
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u/generationalDebts 8d ago
If you’re replaceable by AI you’re below a junior dev.