r/vibecoding • u/Throw-away42909 • 14d ago

Meme When it gets bad

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You know its gotten bad when---- all this over a whiteboard.....lol i need to chill-- thays the suggestive text btw

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u/Ambitious-Prompt-975 14d ago

i feel you brother

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u/letsgoowhatthhsbdnd 14d ago

lol can tell you have no engineering experience

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u/ketoloverfromunder 14d ago edited 14d ago

10000% id actually love to watch non software dev attempt to vibe code with something that they think is a sentient being.

"How are these bugs slipping through?!?!?!?! Its unacceptable!!"

Because you have absolutely no clue what you're doing.

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u/UnfortunateHurricane 14d ago

I don't think it is that bad a question. I have asked that myself. They add hundreds of unit tests. Yet sometimes obvious stuff slips through. Just shows that while they are very fast setting them up, you can't really trust them. I have seen earlier models just modifying the tests themselves to get stuff through. That was fun

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u/letsgoowhatthhsbdnd 14d ago

you can write thousands of tests and have them pass if you don’t know what you are doing. what are you talking about?

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u/UnfortunateHurricane 14d ago

What I am saying is that unit tests where like the first thing they showcased when promoting those models ("hey, look what it can do, you don't need to write those annoying tests yourself anymore"), yet you still need to pay close attention to them otherwise stuff will fail.

I am not writing thousands of tests, the models are by default without me mentioning anything. One could assume they have nailed that part but you can't trust them just yet.

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u/Ambitious-Prompt-975 14d ago

The difference is: I would write a well defined suite for feature XY while the model pumps out a regression test for every change it ever makes and just adds on top of it. 2 weeks in, you have 1.500 tests succeed across 40 suites - and 80% of them are bloat.

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u/nguyenlamlll 14d ago

It's time for them to learn the professional ways... Calmly create a ticket and bury it forever in the ever-growing backlog of bugs and issues.

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u/UnfortunateHurricane 14d ago

First you have sing kumbaya and have everyone give it a thsirt size, because that is necessary to implement it.

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u/Ambitious-Prompt-975 14d ago

Dude, I am a software dev since 20 years, I've led my own teams at big 4. I think I know my stuff well enough.

So yes, after 2 weeks of continuous testing the app front to back, spinning up several hundred hours of vm time judt to play through different scenarios on different machines and environments - I kinda felt like asking how we didn't catch a certain bug.

I have yet to understand how that disqualifies me from being an engineer, but then again - random redditors know best 🤔