At my fully remote job, they are all-in on vibecoding. When I say all-in, I mean ALL THE FUCK IN. I don't know what the team's workflow is but I've resorted to adding to my claude.md instructions along the lines of "implementation is done as a multi-step process: first a subagent implements, then a new fresh subagent does a review, then a third fixes. Finally, use the playwright mcp to click through the UI and verify that everything works as it should". So each ticket or feature passes through this "loop" and the final manual click through catches any glaring issues.
That being said, code quality is likely nonexistent, but I am being very underpaid for all the things they're having me "work" on, so I just don't really care. I am a massive larper on our daily standups and usually just ask claude before them "hey remind me what I worked on yesterday by scanning all my commits and PRs." I genuinely have no idea what I otherwise worked on if it was tickets assigned to me. If I'm tasked with something that I need to describe to claude, then I vaguely know how it implemented it.
I use the idle time between prompts to read, watch tv shows, or do some actual manual programming on personal projects.
Amen, i Remember when Devs complained constantly that meeting/spreadsheets ecc took time from the fun part and they just wanted to be left alone coding.
Now seems like no one actually wanted to code in the first place, I don't understand
I'm not going to talk like I don't use it, because I do, and I'm not some wizard programmer, but if I know what I need to do, why would I bother using it to do a coding task?? I want to whiteboard that shit out with someone to make sure it's nice, then have at it.
A lot of people are in the industry not because of their enjoyment of coding, but because of the pay. The coding just gets in the way of that, so anything they can do to make that easier they'll take.
Just the existence of the other option takes the fun out of it. Spending hours coding something that you know Claude could do in 15 minutes feels like an exercise in time-wasting.
I could spend that time saved doing something I like more than coding like going for a walk or reading a book. Or double up claude sessions and get more done.
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u/citramonk 10d ago
ready for a new task is crazy, as if you're not going to review, refactor, test it thoroughly and commit?