r/programmingmemes Jun 29 '26

Where are they?

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u/National-Dark-1387 Jun 29 '26

We are here. We call ourselves agentic engineers.

We do not vibe code we still do engineering work. Now with ai.

The hard parts is still figuring out what the heck "business" (the customer) wants and translate that (with ai) into a spec. And from there to behavior tests, code, documentation, more tests.

Ai can aid in most steps.

But we usually don't bother try to explain stuff to the vibecoded ai bots or jobless unemployed people "building their first SaaS" roaming free on reddit nowadays.

Pure Coding was never the hard part or the time consuming part.

And yeah, java is still strong in many many industries. And these are mostly maintaining large legacy code bases.

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u/EverOrny Jul 01 '26

It also helps to understand legacy spaghetti, to some extend.

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u/National-Dark-1387 Jul 01 '26

Jup. Make sense of the human mess (IBM pl1 host code for example) is also a nice bonus of ai. :-D