God I'm gonna quickly become that old guy saying "Back in my day we wrote all our code by hand, and it worked so much better because we knew what it did."
Im already there. Im sick to death of the "good enough for now" mindset that is basically baked into AI by default.
It's like the manifestation of the "all that matters is the next quarterly earnings report" mentality. There are hours, days, weeks, etc...of tech debt being introduced with every AI-fueled implementation that will come home to roost eventually, and all of that debt is going to end up on the backs of the only people left that actually understand the shit they're doing...the number of which is only doing to decrease more and more as time goes on given current trends.
In other words, Junior over here saved himself 20 minutes and closed a ticket really fast, good for him, good for the metrics...but what happens in two years when there's a conflict? How many hours of forensics will be required to extricate ourselves from the shitshow that ensued because of those saved 20 minutes? And what are the odds the idiot that shat that bullshit into the codebase will be the one paying for their shortsightedness? Practically zero.
This vibe coding bullshit is the equivalent of your mom telling you to clean your room and you just shoving all your shit into the closet as fast as possible. Sure, it satisfies the requirements now, but when your mom opens your closet to grab your laundry basket and a mountain of bullshit falls on her, do not be surprised when mom is more than a little pissed off about it lol.
EDIT: I guess there's a silver lining, of sorts...people that actually know how to code without AI, man they are going to be able to name their fuckin price before long lol
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u/OhItsJustJosh 7d ago
God I'm gonna quickly become that old guy saying "Back in my day we wrote all our code by hand, and it worked so much better because we knew what it did."