Programmer Humor

OK, the cynic in me thinks that isn't a vibe coder typing that, but someone in middle/upper management. They've recently fired most of their engineering teams and replaced them with (probably externally contracted at a considerably lower rate) vibe coders.

They're recognizing some of the problems that were highlighted when this trend started to gain traction and are now thinking of a way where they don't need to accept being wrong in their actions, but also somehow still profit from it by only using real engineers (probably also on external contracts with shitty conditions) when it's absolutely required.

Maybe I'm wrong.

There really is no greater pleasure and no greater value adding activity for a Senior Dev than to wade through masses of code produced by pretty much understanding-free copy & paste from stackoverflow by an automated version of the most junior and clueless coder imaginable.

The reason is that humans are expensive, and they don't want to spend their time programming simply if they can get an AI to give them a functioning project with much less time and effort - at least, commercially.

In my experience I tried to come into a vibe project as a reviewer, and it felt completely unreadable with no underlying principles to hold on to. Like every function was written by a different guy almost.

Now you totally can stuff the context with instructions about how to do everything. And then add 50x mcps to retrieve documentation and policy about how to write the thing, but this is like cheating on an exam by remembering the answers. You already supplied enough context to write the thing yourself.