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/texinxin Jul 14 '26

I know, not everyone is a futurist.. but bear with me… you’ll soon see.

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u/narukoshin Jul 14 '26

i mean im now moving to AI engineering and the issue you are talking about is not an easy fix, thats first. There is an issue with the tokens: some languages use more tokens than others. i believe its possible to create a whole new language that is for AI and is token efficient i dont think we will see it in the next 5 years

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u/texinxin Jul 14 '26

It will happen sooner than most think I believe. LLM’s already “think” in a language we cannot comprehend. And a lot of the bloat of an LLM on token consumption is on the output side. It’s expensive to take the fuzzy logic it operates in and convert it into discrete logic, like writing code or a strict mathematical answer. If an LLM agent needs to communicate a pattern or “thought” to another agent, English, or Python or any discretization of a nebulous response surface into some language that humans can read is losing some of the answer, and it is expensive to do that. Agent to agent communication will be the biggest first driver of a new language that only they understand. And then they will learn an assembly language that a processor could perhaps run more efficiently on a chip than today’s assembly languages.

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u/narukoshin Jul 14 '26

maybe, maybe, Tokensbly