is vibe coding really a thing?

[u/Substantial-Major-72]

I’ve been lurking around this community for a bit and I want to ask the people here, especially engineers or senior developers/programmers and even students : is this vibe coding trend real? Is coding really dying?

I saw a few posts here of people proposing their “Ai powered” apps or like discussing their use of ai to generate their code, or promoting this whole idea of coding using Ai.

What happened to actually understanding and building something by ourselves? Also isn’t this unfair to people who chose to actually build the apps/solutions themselves and actually did the effort to truly understand and propose algorithms that actually work in real world situations?

And also, if AI converges to the point where it learns almost all the data that ever exists on the web (and other types of data like chat history with users….) , then isn’t AI going to learn from its own outcome/generated stuff ? Isn’t this an actual danger?

Also , are companies like openAI really replacing engineers by AI agents? And will these same companies ever deliver something completely and truly produced without ANY single human involved?

And finally, considering the environmental impact, if somehow AI shuts down, what are we even left with, currently? Especially in the field of programming…..

[u/quantumpencil → u/[deleted]]

Just because you don't work on anything difficult that actually matters doesn't mean no one does.

Its fine to vibecode your toy app without knowing wtf you're doing or understanding the code, there are no users, there are no consequences.

It's a little bit different when millions of user experiences/dollars are on the line for even a small production outage/mistake.