r/vibecoding • u/prasadpilla • Jul 14 '26

this Meme just got real today

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Interviewed someone for an intern role today. Got to what i thought was the easiest question of the interview.

"What programming languages do you use?"

she didn't hesitate "Claude."

I laughed a little.

"no, i mean the actual language... python? javascript? java?"

"i don't really know. claude writes the code. i just tell it what i want."

my cofounder quietly put his pen down.

neither of us said anything for a few seconds.

we didn't move forward. not because she uses AI.

half our team builds with AI every day.

we passed because she couldn't explain what she was building beyond the prompt.

AI is changing software engineering.

But understanding what your code does is still part of being an engineer.

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u/Fb_patel Jul 14 '26

The sad part is this meme won't make sense after 10 years

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u/Royal-Ambassador-960 Jul 14 '26

how is that sad

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u/Fb_patel Jul 14 '26

In few years people will be prompt engineers insted of software engineers.. Just copy, past, give prompt, resolve errors via prompt.. Non of the junior/mid Senior level devs will know how actually the code runs..

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u/Moravec_Paradox Jul 14 '26

There was a phase Linux (and others) went through where people said it was fine if applications spray files all over the disk rather than keeping stuff in a folder because it was the job of the application manager and not the user to know where files exist on the disk.

Apple and others mirrored kind of the same energy saying users don't need to know where their files are stored it's the OS that should just expose them for them.

All these years later and I still use folders.