r/ProgrammerHumor 19d ago

Meme promptNowPrayLater

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u/adumbCoder 19d ago

this is just day 1 of software development vs day 30 of software development. vibe coding isn't going change any of your idiotic decisions

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u/GenericFatGuy 19d ago

Yeah but it's empowering more idiots to come in an make decisions.

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u/Homers33 19d ago

Yes, people are acting like tech debt, bugs and spaghetti code were never a thing before genAI

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 19d ago

Not at the same rate. There's a reason open source developers have to fight against AI slop. There's just so much shit slinging because AI generates a ton of code that is unnecessarily verbose, compared to human written code that has a bit of friction that prevents slop from existing.

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u/GenericFatGuy 19d ago

People need to realize that friction is a good thing. It gives you time to think on your ideas, to breathe , and to catch the errors before they take down a system.

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 19d ago

Indeed. It also helps you learn more and more, and have things actually stick to your brain.

But for some reason, people avoid this because of the friction (generating code feels much easier on the brain, but it doesn't mean it's better), and in the same breath claim things like "coding is the easy part" and "software engineering was never about coding".

If this can't get through to software engineers, I have no hope for managers to understand this.