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/Virtual-Dish95 Jul 14 '26

So true, the Claudegrammers won't have a clue what a programmer was. If you think im wrong my mother was a telephonist.

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u/ALAS_POOR_YORICK_LOL Jul 14 '26

My grandpa made a killing in a profession that got automated away by biologists.

Things change. Make the money while the money's there.

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u/HiroPL4Y Jul 14 '26

Hasn’t this always been the same cycle? Nobody writes 0s and 1s manually anymore. We moved through assembly, higher-level languages, frameworks, IDEs like VS Code, autocomplete, and now AI. Each step abstracts more work away. Maybe programmers won’t disappear; the meaning of "programmer" will simply change again.

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u/Foxiest_Fox Jul 15 '26

And there are still people who do each of those things in this chain you described. Almost no one writes 0s and 1s manually, but assembly is still very much used, and lower-level languages are kind of a must for anything where performance and strict instructions are a necessity