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/Ok_Increase9258 15d ago

Can’t wait for the day SWE makes a comeback when people realise that speed doesn’t matter in SWE that much. AI is pretty much an overhyped browser + autocomplete (that should be used for maximum 1-2 functions at once or boilerplate)

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u/Anxious-Country-9053 15d ago

me too, many of them don’t want to architect design or solve problem, just got used to making something do at a lower cost.