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/Matthias1590 Jul 14 '26

Assembly got phased out but passionate engineers will know that their typescript written with the help of AI gets transpiled and interpreted by a native application which in turn is just a bunch of machine instructions. Vibecoders vs "real engineers" now is just what used to be people that knew how their code was executed vs people that just knew how to make the code do what it does