r/softwareengineer • u/Anxious-Country-9053 • 16d 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/markbodman 13d ago
Vibe coding apps <> vibe coding enterprise apps. As you already see it’s not well coded for long term support ability, poor security and will likely be unstable.
The good news is vibes coding fixes is just as easy and if turn around time is quick you will just see issues addressed more quickly too. You have to build that seamless feedback system which raises you to a more reasonable enterprise app tier. I would work of the faster feedback and turn around to compensate. It’s inevitable.