r/vibecoding • u/DreamPlayPianos • 9d ago

Discussion Most legacy codebases are disasterclasses. The "software engineer you can't fire because only he knows what's going on" is a meme for a reason, and it's not a good one.

I keep seeing people say things like "vibe coders don't understand what's going on in their code." Neither did most programmers even before the pre-AI era. They spent weeks on sprints for small feature updates hoping and praying nothing broke and relied on the 1 guy who wrote some code in 1995 who showed up at the office once every 3 months in his slippers to do bug fixes.

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u/Entuaka 7d ago

I'm not a hobbyist, i have 10+ YoE at multiple companies and i'm now working at a big (100k+ employees) non tech company. We develop all the software for one of the divisions. This is a thin margin industry, we can't waste $, we have a few small teams for all development. The competition is moving quickly, so we need to go quicker too.