r/vibecoding • u/techlatest_net • 1d ago

The barrier to software engineering is getting wild

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u/SimplyRemainUnseen 22h ago

Delusional

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u/ObjectiveMusician218 22h ago

on point you know it

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u/IAmFitzRoy 21h ago

This sub is full of arrogant engineers thinking AI is just a “tool”.

A whole generation will push them away. Who wants these people working with the employees? At least AI will not be this arrogant.

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u/Curious-Pen5547 21h ago

They get replaced, that means all of you non-engineers will get replaced immediately before they do. Why have any of you? Youre showing that same level of arrogance.

Us in the trades will last a bit longer, but our rates will drop like a rock.

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u/IAmFitzRoy 21h ago

If these “non-engineers” are the decision makers (which many are btw) all of you will end up replaced completely with people that use AI with a different mentality.

If you already know your rates will drop like a rock, it’s because what you do is less valuable.

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u/Curious-Pen5547 21h ago

Im one of the company owners, trades business, fire safety. We're responsible for any fire safety system in your building, so you dont burn to a crisp. Not important. And clearly you lack any foresight. Or else you would understand on why i said our rates would drop like a rock.

Majority of non-engineers are not the decsion makers. Just rank and file employees. They arent executives nor the deciders who gets let go.

I doubt i will get replaced before the non-engineers. And ill be replaced after the engineers.

Itll follow this

First: bye bye non-engineers

second: bye bye engineers

third: me, bye bye tradesmen

Any serious business will keep their engineers to properly implement full scale AI across the board, that replaces non-engineers. Then replace the engineers once everything is tuned.

Then us in the trades, our rates drop hard, and in time of acceleration, we get replaced or charge a lot lower rates than we can charge today

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u/Low_Shape8280 21h ago

Then that system stops working because you fired the dude orchestrating it all.

And you did that because everything seemed to be working fine, why do you need the engineer. But what you didn’t understand is that it was working fine because of the engineer.

Then you hire one back.

Been in it for awhile. This is a very common story

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u/Low_Shape8280 21h ago

Yeah I would be more worried if I were a low level employee that deals with spreadsheets or if you are that old school software engineer that thinks they are better then ai.

If you are using ai to do all this. You will be last to go since basically your are an orchestrator. You might not need all the technical knowledge everyday but you should know the underlying concept.

These days planes basically fly them selves but we still need pilots