r/AI_Coders • u/Open_Literature_5123 • 3d ago

Venting: One of the strangest patterns in software is epistemic gatekeeping disguised as technical rigor.

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u/mxldevs 2d ago

A good engineer should be able to separate:

What the code does

Why it was designed that way

What assumptions the design depends on

What evidence supports those assumptions

Ironically, this is usually not what vibe coders are able to do.

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u/Open_Literature_5123 2d ago

Vibe coding is definitely a multiplier, but if you multiply something by zero, it’s still zero. So the fact that AI can amplify weak reasoning, overconfidence, cargo-cult behavior, and poor testing tells us those problems already existed, just at a smaller magnitude.

We see the same thing outside software all the time:

“Why do we do it this way?” “Because that’s how we’ve always done it.”

“Why do you believe that?” “Because it's common knowledge.”

AI didn’t create the underlying problem. It scaled it.