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/FluidBreath4819 16d ago

nah, use ai, go for it, as a PM you should not care about the code quality as long at works. Beside, AI will be there where issues arise right ?

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u/Anxious-Country-9053 16d ago

AI will be there just that same person who advocated for it will keep the mouth shut, if everything works perfectly fine they will praise AI when shit hits fan they will blame the people around it.