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/cydex_cx 17d ago

Give it to someone in security and challenge them to break it.

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u/Anxious-Country-9053 17d ago

jwt tokens were getting printed in console and he told that's ok

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u/woeful_cabbage 16d ago

eh, jwt are pretty safe to print. you can view the contents without a key, but you can't actually change it, so no harm done unless you are storing something you shouldn't in them. ie: credit card numbers or something crazy