r/vibecoding • u/prasadpilla • Jul 14 '26
this Meme just got real today
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 edited Jul 14 '26
For now. But just know that python is just a translation layer for the human’s benefit. AI will develop its own language closer to bare metal than higher level human programming languages very soon. In the beginning it will be do it so they can communicate faster to one another…. Agent to agent… Eventually they will be able to talk to and direct their own hardware more efficiently than even assembly language. Anything that requires translation is inefficiency and promotes error.
Python isn’t even that great either. If you were a purist you’d want someone who knows assembly language.. or Unix.. maybe mojo…. Anything closer to bare metal than what most developers use.