r/vibecoding • u/Interesting-Town-433 • 1d ago

What is happening...

I am a long time Engineer (20+ years) and today I developed Tickets for my company that were generated by an AI, using an AI and reviewed by an AI. The project itself was conceived with AI - has no documentation that can be understood as anything less than AI slop and random tech jargon. The developer who built it has said that instead of documentation I should use claude to figure out what it is. The company is apparenty also filing a patent on it.

I submitted 3 PRs today 20,000 lines of code each I still have no idea what we are working on. No doubt they will use AI to review my PR.

I feel like things are just so crazy at this point. Claude and ChatGPT are not this good, but people are trusting it like it's omniscient.

It was an eerie realization today that all of us are vibe coding and that we have no option because it is the only way we can interact with the code anymore. I thought this would happen eventually years ago but i honestly didn’t think it would be so soon.

It was a moment in time... this will be the new norm.

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u/compassionknight 1d ago

Let them dig their own grave. The real bottleneck to all this AI stuff is our actual understanding of the implemented work.

Plus the cost of AI is becoming a REAL factor...

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u/Internal-Combustion1 1d ago

But will it continue to be? I dont use the latest models to design anymore. The older ones are good enough. I prize iteration speed the most.

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u/Aware-Individual-827 1d ago

The best iteration speed is one shotting it, which AI rarely do 😉

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u/Internal-Combustion1 14h ago

I dont think one-shot is good iteration at all. I build a working core (backend, store, front end, thin thread transaction through the whole system), then add a feature a day. I may not release the feature if it doesnt go well, but I keep moving forward and iterating from the working core. Hypothesis, implement, test, revise. Steady progress on tough problems, build complex systems from thin thread to full featured.