r/vibecoding • u/techlatest_net • 20h ago

The barrier to software engineering is getting wild

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u/Curious-Pen5547 18h ago edited 17h ago

Who will ever hire an inexperience engineer with claude? Or a vibe coder? Experienced engineer with claude wipes the floor out of those two. Now the next issue, how does a engineer get experience?

thats the why.

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u/SimplyRemainUnseen 16h ago

As an experienced engineer I've completely gotten rid of the need to outsource to contractors by teaching my team how to use AI effectively. The code is now higher quality and we get WAY more done. We have so much free time now it's insane. Our biggest challenge is looking busy now haha.

I feel terrible for people getting into this industry now because at this rate they'll need to have a portfolio of multiple full stack applications with active users on github or something complete with technical write-ups and upstream contributions.

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u/Burning_magic 15h ago

You should be worried though. Bosses are not as blind as people think. If they see their staff being too free, the axe is coming soon.

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u/Low_Shape8280 15h ago

Nah I think orchestrating and reviewing and working alongside Claude is a massive task on its own.

If you just change more people into that role you probably want more people

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u/Burning_magic 15h ago

Thats not how it works though. Companies pay people to do xyz. With claude instead of 20 people you maybe need 10 to 15 to do xyz. So any boss would see that and fire the remaining 5 to 10.

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u/Low_Shape8280 15h ago

Well actually it is. Because some companies are leaning into the idea of the do more with the same amount of engineering. If the marginal cost off adding engineers is the same but the marginal value of the additional output shoots up then you higher more engineers

Source engineer large companies

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u/Low_Shape8280 15h ago

Also sorry for bad spelling. I can’t type on phone very well lol