Hello programmers! I’ve been making a living for a couple of decades figuring out stuff for people and coding whatever will make them happy. It’s fun. I’ve grown to prefer the people to the coding but I still get a kick out of the whole thing.
The problem is: at the job we’re being asked to pivot to vibe coding. At this point the order is to use it for all code, read the slop carefully, argue with the machine for way too long and only then open that PR. Massive productivity gains are expected. I’m appalled from an ethical, philosophical and professional standpoint. We’re a non-profit ngo ffs. My colleagues are fine with it. If I get even slightly critical the group goes awkwardly silent and I get comments on how all the programmers they know from other places don’t code anymore.
If this is how it goes from now on, I’m out. Is it really though? Are all businesses switching to vibe coding? Have some of you started switching career? I think I want to go to meatspace. Hand-made coding could make a cute hobby.
You’re right to push back on that – I’ve been using Claudish the whole time and this actually changes everything. If we use English instead, each one of these comments could be a single, concise line. One thing worth knowing: This is not a minor boost to understanding, but a complete game changer. Understanding my bullshit has been gated behind speaking LLMese.
Nah, really, I’ve been able to get fairly decent code out of the newer models since I work with a very popular language. Not one-shotted of course, but after some change requests or manual changes. But the language these models speak (including the Chinese ones, it seems) is infuriating and they seem to insist on tons of super long comments in places where the code itself feels self-explanatory. My philosophy is to write “why” comments, not “how” comments, but not a single model seems to agree with me.
Are IKEA kitchens really that bad? I’ve been looking to remodel my ancient kitchen and it comes to 5-6k EUR, appliances included (minus the fridge, I upgraded that a while ago), from IKEA. If I ask a carpenter to do a proper one, that’s going to be more like 10-20k and I don’t wanna spend that kinda money lol