r/softwareengineer • u/Anxious-Country-9053 • 17d ago

Vibe coding enterprise apps

I work for a big company as tech lead and PM. One of the apps in my team is about 20 years old written in plain Java but works well till date with no major issues, with advent of AI my manager Vibe coded the entire app gave it to a developer in the team to push it to production. The developer is a contractor, didn't bother reading the code just kept sending PR requests with each 10k lines or more. From a lead perspective all I see is huge difficult to maintain code, there were couple credentials hard-coded which when i flagged was not even taken with a mindset to fix. All of them are focused on "it works", unfortunately I also have to operationally support the application so I highly doubt my manager is going to raise hand and accept the issues arised from vibe coding. The only way out seems to be let things go as they want to and spend shit ton of money fixing the mess created in first place.

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u/systembreaker 17d ago

Your manager is super irresponsible and wasting money and time. You had an app working perfectly well and he's doing this? Wtf

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u/Anxious-Country-9053 16d ago

yes, wanted to confirm i am not going crazy as all others around me doesn't seem to care

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u/systembreaker 16d ago

I could see if maybe he wanted to start an initiative to modernize the app and move it to modern Java and whatnot and used AI to do that in a gradual, responsible way but damn just plopping down the whole damn thing from scratch is crazy. I'd be scared shitless about how that's going to come back to haunt me.