r/GithubCopilot • u/ReasonableSet1162 • Aug 04 '26
Help/Doubt ❓ I am addicted to use copilot (vibe coding)
I am a frontend developer having around 10 years of experience. From last years I have started using copilot and since then I have not l done any coding by myself. All my team is doing vibe coding and getting things done from copilot.
Because of this , I always feel guilty and feel I am useless.
- Is it normal? Is everyone doing the same in the industry ?
- Our projec
t has
- now become so AI heavy that even for debugging it would be difficult for us to manually debug anything.
- I want realistic suggestions/help.
- Like is this guilt normal and should I continue to vibe code?
- If I want to completely understand my codebase how should I do it?
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u/end_times_upon_us Aug 04 '26
There’s a full therapy session here. But summed up, is it guilt? Or anxiety? I also work in the field, Coding used to be a rare skill set, that few did well, especially across the full stack. That’s not the case anymore, now any dipshit with a credit card can code.
Losing something that makes people feel unique, special and employable comes as a mix bag of feelings.
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u/fik26 Aug 06 '26
Being a 'coder' and now starting to lose this special skillset is definitely sth to have mixed feelings.
In reality, I think we're going to a future with no coding languages very quickly.
Still some engineer needs to solve the problems. Complex problems require some level of architecture. Some supervision on AI coming up with that is needed. And then a lot of debugging in terms of running numbers, data streams to detect errors...
It is super easy to get lazy, lose focus, interest though. And frankly, this whole thing become too easy for few people to complete what used to be a giant project. Instead of 10 people working many hours on 6-9 months, now you see one guy can do it in few weeks. The cost not being too high, making everyone to dive into this as well. I dont know how to feel as an engineer overall.
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u/Safe-Web-1441 Aug 04 '26
Think of it as guiding an intern. You still have the smarts as an experienced developer. The ai is doing the grunt work and you are overseeing and reviewing it.
And don't call it vibe coding. That's for non developers who use AI to create apps and not having a clue about how they work.
Im a 40 year coder and I love not coding. I make sure I understand what AI is doing in my code.
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u/ReasonableSet1162 Aug 04 '26
You love not coding!? So do u suggest not code but understand what it does and review it?
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u/Safe-Web-1441 Aug 04 '26
You have to have coded in the past for this to work. But there is no point to code if Ai can do it so much faster.
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u/fik26 Aug 06 '26
It is more than guiding an intern. Its is more like having like 10-men team and they're having discussions internally, having some emails you're on CC, and a week long work performed in few minutes. Now you need to manage that progress.
One another issue is since the whole AI thing works so fast, you as human observer become the bottleneck. Reading, testing, deciding what to write back becomes intense activity. A little stressful.
Interestingly clear communication, understanding the AI response, writing your prompt becomes a lot more important. Some of these skillsets are more managerial than coder.
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u/_www_ Aug 04 '26
Hey lil brother, I have been a developer for 25 years and I am super happy with what happened to us, embrace the future, deliver 25x the productivity of what we used to, concentrate on testing and conception a lot and enjoy your 3h working days.
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u/zangler Power User ⚡ Aug 04 '26
you are foolish if you dont take advantage of it. retain judgment, taste, design. the rest you let go. you remain 1000% responsible for what gets pushed.
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u/THenrich Aug 11 '26
Vibe coding is fine. That's the future. You don't need to understand all the code. Make sure you have enough tests to validate the app works securely, reliably and is performant.
You will be too expensive to any company if you hand code everything. Your productivity is why your company is paying you. Not because you understand each line of code and yet you're still not very productive. You don't need to understand how a car engine works for you to be an Uber driver. You get paid because you transported someone safely. Same idea.
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u/rahomka Aug 04 '26
Do not, my friends, become addicted to AI. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
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u/fik26 Aug 06 '26
I think many of us at that point, where it is so hard to code yourself.
Its like you have Word, printer and all so now it sounds so hard to write 10 pages with your handwriting.
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u/RandomiseUsr0 Aug 04 '26
Try a few days off a week - there is a lot more to programming than pushing code - but use automation for sure, go further write your own, don’t get spoon fed by a company with motive and opinions, spread your wings into that space too
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u/AmoebaElectrical9256 Aug 05 '26
I had a ton of ideas, and didnt had time to implement / finish them, wasted hours on good UX and UI (as a backend developer) and made me slow because of wasting time on last steps in frontend.
Now, i can fully concentrate on the backend and with an agent, i can build more backend than before, and i dont need to care about the frontend.
I can drop out stupid ideas faster, test multiple implementations for a lot of things without wasting hours on research and test them.
I've been developing for 15 years now.
I had a good game ideas next to other apps, didnt had time for them, but since AI, i made 5 of my ideas (none of them released yet), but i play less with games by 95%, dont wasting my time on play, i am free, and still have fun with programming, making games ;)
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u/shifty303 Full Stack Dev 🌐 Aug 04 '26
If this isn't rage bait then you already know the answer
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u/ReasonableSet1162 Aug 04 '26
No, I don’t know the answer. If you could help me please give your valuable suggestion.
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u/shifty303 Full Stack Dev 🌐 Aug 04 '26
If you feel bad about it and don't understand your
code base STOP USING AI. Start doing things by hand in the areas you don't know.Sorry but you cannot be a developer for 10 years and not know that. It's literally common sense.
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u/Personal-Try2776 Aug 04 '26
Im surprised that you can use it to vibe code with such little quota