This is the real reason why all those scrappy rebels in sci-fi shows can hack into everything.

guy in the business of vibe coding hypes up vibe coding

But could you imagine all the exploits we would have found by now? That special little coast line would have been nothing. Missing Number? Bet we would have had the whole Missing Alphabet haha.

and that's the fucking crux of it right there, the damage. Any code base without someone smart enough to throw this trash out is going to take forever to fix or might just be too far gone to save

3 months later they rehired all of those four engineers to fix all that bullshit useless code.

man does this dude think the hardest part about writing a book is fucking typing it out? someone give this dork a swirly

Techbros calculate programming skills by lines of code per shift.

It only makes sense that they would think "10x engineer" just means "types 10 times as fast."

It said it had. Obviously, a fabrication. Even after it said it implemented it, it took a couple more hours of coaxing it and pointing whst should be done before it actually worked.

Point is, one shouldn't go near these LLMs for coding unless they know what to do and how to look for problems.

"Talent utilization crisis"

"Hire 1 engineer instead of 4"

Yes

Until the AI Token bills start getting counted into your CTC.

The first half of this story made me wonder if we were colleagues.

The second half was different though. Our guy was a personal friend of some high up, slandered the existing codebase without so much as even speaking to the existing devteam, and then took the better part of a year claiming he could replace the entire decade old codebase while making vague promises that it was coming soon. Meanwhile upper management was taking the slander seriously, punished my department and got a new manager for it. It wasnt until the new manager outed him as a fraud for his ass to finally get caught.

I doubt he was able to read the legacy codebase at all.

There's going to be so much awful slop code everywhere in the future.

This was definitely written with AI.

The most important thing in vibe coding is to cash the check and nope out of there before management realize what you've done.

If folks think Windows 11 is bad now! FWIW she ain't at a big tech company. It is the whole ass coding industry as seen by countless reports.

I'm not her or her employer. It is an odd time for the coding industry. It'd be like a fish swimming against the manager/leader-lead river.

Could you try something else and when it says it's done, ask it to check for errors first? Just curious, and not a programmer.

Fun story!

The CEO was charmed by some AI vibe dude who

1. Absolutely ripped into multiple software departments about our "shit code"
2. Bragged that he could do it faster and better with AI

CEO gave him a three month trial run to show it.

AI vibe dude spent the first two weeks showing off all this cool new frontend to managers. Nothing actually worked. They gave him a round of feedback.

Then he spent another two weeks struggling to meet the feedback.

Nobody in the tech department wanted to help him because he came in shit talking.

They ended the trial because the AI Vibe coder dude couldn't handle system changes, how to fix bugs, implementing new feature requests without breaking old stuff, and didn't have any real coding skills. He barely lasted a month.

Damn you, now I want spaghetti with mushrooms.

So......why is she letting them, and not instead, like, not letting them?

Yea…..but how may developers are you going to have to pay to maintain that shit?

I hate LinkedIn and all the fuck holes on it so god damn bad

Ah yes one of those bootlicking linkedin lunatics

Ah yes, the Fred Trump gambit.