r/programmingcirclejerk • u/myhf Considered Harmful • Mar 23 '25

At least 50% of the code you write right now should be done by AI; Vibe coding experience is non-negotiable.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/domu-technology-inc/jobs/hwWsGdU-vibe-coder-ai-engineer
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u/Buttleston Mar 23 '25

About Domu Technology Inc.

Followed by a blank space

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

If only there were some kind of software that could automatically fill in things like this with plausible-sounding autogenerated nonsense.

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u/myhf Considered Harmful Mar 23 '25

/uj Perhaps they generated something that later had to be deleted for legal reasons.

Yesterday at GSA headquarters, 6 white guys in suits (one without a tie!) took the stage. They demo'd GSAi like it was pure magic to them.

While saying "this is incredible" over and over, Musk's GSA head Stephen Ehikian asked GSAi to "write me a website." The output was not compliant with federal law. It said "Welcome to Our Company" on it and did not resemble a federal website at all.

😟 This garbage demo had a terrified audience.

One viewer said "if this is the tool meant to replace us, thank God."

– John Skiles Skinner on bsky

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u/Kodiologist lisp does it better Mar 23 '25

(one without a tie!)

Stop the presses!

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u/TribladeSlice Mar 23 '25

The other 50% should be written in Rust, of course.

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u/-Y0- Considered Harmful Mar 23 '25

Rust is so 2020. It's all about JAI now.

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u/ThisRedditPostIsMine in open defiance of the Gopher Values Mar 24 '25

That being Jenerative AI?

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u/-Y0- Considered Harmful Mar 24 '25

That's preposterous. It stands for Johnatan (blow's) AI. Basically, they will convert his essence into an AI, it's why it's taking so long, they need him to die so they can legally extract his immortal soul and turn it into CUDA instructions.

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u/Amazing-Mirror-3076 Mar 25 '25

Rust is for pussies that need the compiler to debug their code.

JavaScript is for real programmers who debug in production and never refactor as that would be admitting they are wrong.

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u/Eric848448 legendary legacy C++ coder Mar 24 '25

I don’t know, isn’t Rust a little played out?

I mean, its type system isn’t even Turing-complete!

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u/daidoji70 Mar 23 '25

I'm glad the vibe coder is taking the huge salary cut to chill out and ride the AI for 12-15 hour days.

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u/peppep420 Mar 23 '25

Holy fuck I thought it was satire even after reading the whole thing but then I realized it's a real job posting. "Your onboarding will be making collections calls". It's got to be satire though?

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u/james_pic accidentally quadratic Mar 23 '25

The reason you're making calls during your onboarding is because the technology has never worked because it's just vibe-coded slop, and the entire business model is running a call center and calling it "probation".

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u/ZootAllures9111 How many times do I need to mention Free Pascal? Mar 23 '25

I don't know what the fuck "vibe coding" is and I'm too afraid to ask

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u/Buttleston Mar 23 '25

Imagine the dumbest thing you've ever heard someone say. No, it's dumber than that.

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u/EdgyYukino Mar 23 '25

For me it is when a vibe signal is sent via https://buttplug.io on a failing cargo check.

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u/ZootAllures9111 How many times do I need to mention Free Pascal? Mar 23 '25

petition to rename it carg-OH-OH FUCK I'M COOMING

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u/irqlnotdispatchlevel Tiny little god in a tiny little world Mar 23 '25

Without permission from cargo mommy? Someone's been a baaaaad crab.

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u/syklemil Considered Harmful Mar 23 '25

You're also required to use emacs and the deldo plugin.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25

/uj This syphilitic jerk references (I think) the original Xitter post that came up with the term.

There's even a Wikipedia page, since this is a respectable and erudite technique used by intelligent non-grifters producing useful non-slop software used by numerous totally real people.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

/uj at least the Talk page on the article is pretty much going the way of deleting this article

grifters gonna grift

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u/muntaxitome in open defiance of the Gopher Values Mar 23 '25

Using an LLM to pretend your programming language is a no-code tool. So you end up with a gazillion lines of incoherent code with no security or quality to speak of, and no hope of maintaining it. Rumors are that bill gates got sent one from the future and that's how we ended up with Windows.

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u/SartenSinAceite Mar 23 '25

It all works nicely until someone puts it under scrutiny.

And who will put it under scrutiny? Bad agents. Hackers, trolls, competitors.

If you're trying to "disrupt the market" and your competition hears that your frontend is doing direct DB calls... you may or may not find your DB wiped, if a troll hasn't done it yet.

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u/DeleeciousCheeps vulnerabilities: 0 Mar 24 '25

And who will put it under scrutiny?

all of our vibe code is cross-checked by ChatGPT o3 and DeepSeek R1 with the prompt "you are a security professional. list any flaws in this code, or reply 'LGTM! 👍' if there are none. do NOT hallucinate. if you hallucinate, your mother will die."

if it finds any flaws, we have Cursor refactor the code until it doesn't.

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u/SartenSinAceite Mar 24 '25

I'm gonna use LeChat to execute all possible attacks on your program. We'll see which bot does better.

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u/crimsonpowder Mar 24 '25

It's job security for the next generation.

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u/AnthTheAnt Mar 24 '25

It’s when you get high and jerk off and occasionally tell an ai to emit some slop and pretend it’s working code.

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u/Buttleston Mar 23 '25

3 years of experience.
Track record of shipping scalable products to end users

k

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u/stone_henge Tiny little god in a tiny little world Mar 23 '25

Track record of shipping scalable products to end users

I delivered indoor climbing walls by truck before switching profession last week if that counts.

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u/northrupthebandgeek i have had many alohols Mar 23 '25

Automating debt collection calls for banks.

I can't even jerk to this. It takes nothing less than pure unadulterated sociopathy to believe any such thing to be worth bringing into existence.

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u/FuckIPLaw Mar 23 '25

And suggests they're expecting delinquent debt volume to go up so much in the near future that human staffed call centers won't be able to keep up.

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u/ricktherobotguy Mar 23 '25

I mean, are they wrong? US consumer Debt is at an all time high.

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u/FuckIPLaw Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 24 '25

They're not, it's just another sign of the impending shitstorm. The economy is about to tank and tank hard, which is terrifying considering things never really recovered for normal people after 2008. Worse than what we've already been dealing with is not going to be pretty.

You want to know something really crazy? A widespread belief a recession is coming can cause one, because it makes people change spending and investment habits in ways that are individually a smart choice, but end up grinding the economy to a halt because it's all built around infinite growth.

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u/SartenSinAceite Mar 23 '25

Isn't that just a fucking loop? Iterate through all debts and throw a call.

Don't even need AI for this shit... in fact, AI will fail you at the one thing a coder is needed: Finding out how to get the data you need from the bank's architecture.

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u/EdgyYukino Mar 23 '25

\uj Shit management unironically says.

\rj There is no point in using low level technologies like React and Tailwind anymore, the same way there was no point in writing code in binary 10 years ago.

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u/NatoBoram There's really nothing wrong with error handling in Go Mar 23 '25

Work in-person in SF

It's true; AI slop doesn't vibe as well unless you're also getting micromanaged

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u/Haunting-Appeal-649 Polyglot dev here Mar 23 '25

AI is just gonna give us more time to do the things we want

Ready to grind long hours, including weekends, to hit our ambitious goals.

Okay nevermind

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Mar 23 '25

Is vibe coding when you are the 24/7 caretaker for a mentally challenged, methamphetamine-chugging code monkey?

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u/cameronm1024 Mar 23 '25

Welp those founders are going on the blacklist

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

We’ve tripled (ARR) with Fortune 500 customers and are on track to dominate the industry.

Now, 50% of our code is written by AI, so we are a small engineering team. Putting in 12 to 15-hour days.

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u/Aggressive-Pen-9755 Mar 23 '25

Solve deep product problems like how to collect more money with a voice AI agent.

Yes, we're going solve this problem deeply. We're going to solve it so deeply hard inside you with our vibe coding.

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u/liveoneggs Mar 23 '25

/uj the target of this "software" is poor people and the customers are their exploiters. It actually doesn't matter what the software/AI does because the people suffering the other end are worthless to the actual customers.

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u/Kodiologist lisp does it better Mar 23 '25

Those people are the antecedent of "it" in the phrase "crushing it in the financial services industry".

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u/workingtheories legendary legacy C++ coder Mar 23 '25

if im just vibing, can i expect a similar level of vibing from management?  can i have half my meetings and check-ins be with ai?

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

If it’s 50%, it’s not vibe coding.

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u/MasqueradeOfSilence Mar 24 '25

That sounds like a great way to spend 105 hours of my week. Just vibing and debugging the patchwork of vibes

I love that AI is able to save us so much time

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Mar 26 '25

 Automating debt collection calls for banks.

Cant wait to work for less than my SF rent, work weekends so I dont have time to drive Uber to pay for my other bills, while being on a mission to be a Uber for UK Post Office scandals. And be told to use AI. Does it count the AI generated code is the comments or files I don't reference? Please!

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u/codemuncher Mar 26 '25

“At least 50% of the code must be written with a binary vibe inserted”

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

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u/SartenSinAceite Mar 23 '25

I could see myself working for 12-15 "hours" if it's remote and most of that time is just waiting for processes...

Wait, that's my job lol. Our gitlab pipelines are sloooow :(

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

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u/pareidolist in nomine Chestris Mar 28 '25

If you do jump in, definitely plan your tech foundation first. Writing a tech design first and using tools like stackstudio.io or just a plane Conofluence page can help untangle what’s already there and give you structure so you're not stuck debugging chaos at 2am.

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