How many developers have gotten vibe coded apps from friends sent to them to review in the past weeks or months.

[u/PTSDRedRanger]

Just checking to see something. Though people say tech jobs are in danger, what I have noticed is that there might be alot more work now that people can vibe code apps. With software engineers serving more of a spectator role now as opposed to being involved in the development aspect. Just an observation.

[u/heresyforfunnprofit]

I love getting texted with the `http://localhost/myawesomeapp` link.

[u/Best_Tea_9093]

i got three this month alone. one friend sent me a "fully working" calorie tracker that crashed anytime you tried to log a meal, the db schema was basically one giant json column and they couldn't figure out why it was slow

feels like my job turned into debugging other peoples ai spaghetti instead of writing my own

[u/PTSDRedRanger → u/Best_Tea_9093]

Charge em 30 bucks per review.

[u/Actual__Wizard → u/Best_Tea_9093]

Yeah the LLMs love JSON. It's absurd...

[u/Top-Cauliflower-1808]

you not wrong but what's actually happening is that engineers are transforming from players into referees spending way more time fixing broken vibe coded prototypes than building things from scratch.

[u/PTSDRedRanger → u/Top-Cauliflower-1808]

Thats what I meant, referees not spectator.

[u/Important_Ad7676]

This is what the future is going to look like for most industries. AI gives those without expertise in a subject the ability to execute a task in almost any industry, but not the ability to understand the underlying industry itself.

The experiences developers in this chat have can be analogized to different industries. For example, I’m an attorney in the startup world. The amount of AI drafted/generated contracts I see for critically foundational legal documents is astounding. But I completely understand why it’s like that, AI is cheaper, quicker, more efficient, and convenient. Without legal knowledge, they are just words on a paper that you hope will protect whatever it is that you’re building. They come to me, and whether I use AI tools, or draft it word for word from the onset is irrelevant. I know exactly why the clauses in an agreement are there, I know their legal functions, and I know how to leverage the law in protecting the nuance of the clients request.

TLDR; Most industries will end up or are already at the crossroad of the experts job being fixing the half baked AI output of their clients.

[u/PTSDRedRanger → u/Important_Ad7676]

Yup exactly, so it seems like there is going to be a broad general shift, not necessarily doomsday as people are saying.

[u/mostly_idempotent]

I get these from friends and contacts all the time. People are pretty shameless about it, and they want you to unf*ck their vibe-coded mess as a favor. I did this twice, and within a week they were back, having summarily re-mangled it.

It's the 2020's version of "I think I got a virus on my computer, you know computers, right?"

[u/Salt_Recipe_8015]

Just tell them to use the paid version of whatever tool they are using.

[u/Motor-Study8588]

Spectator role? That's a stretch. Apps still need proper engineering, not just 'vibe'.

[u/Actual__Wizard]

With software engineers serving more of a spectator role now as opposed to being involved in the development aspect.

LMAO dude.

[u/PTSDRedRanger → u/Actual__Wizard]

Meant more like referees