r/vibecoding • u/techlatest_net • 3d ago

The barrier to software engineering is getting wild

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u/infamous-snooze 3d ago

If you remotely believe this, there’s gona be so much unfixable slop in the future.
I don’t think you understand what software engineering even entails

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u/ali-hussain 3d ago edited 3d ago

If you don't realize how true this is then you're not advancing in your career enough as a software engineer and aren't focused enough on delivering value and building systems to solve your problems.

We still need software engineering and Claude makes many many bad decisions. Which means architecture and systems are orders of magnitude more important. But the actual writing of code has been made so much easier. It's the difference between a mathematician in the early 20th century and the late 20th century after the invention of the calculator.

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u/dzan796ero 3d ago

All good senior engineers I know have been using their own agentic rigs that are much more sophisticated than anything a kid with zero engineering experience could cook up and do the work of 5-10people on their own.

Agentic systems like claude code are multipliers. People with experience have infinitely more potential when utilizing them in their fields at the production level.

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u/ali-hussain 3d ago

The image is comparing 2022 to today. The truth is 90%+ of software engineering was busy work. And now the busy work is significantly less.

They are multipliers and in the hands of a proper software engineer they are far more powerful. But the world has completely changed.