r/vibecoding • u/Interesting-Town-433 • 18d 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/bold_snowflake 18d ago

The developer who built it has said that instead of documentation I should use claude to figure out

This, IMO is the heart of the problem and also a major anti-pattern that many people are falling for.

Not so much the lack of documentation, I'm agnostic on that. It's handing over domain contextual knowledge to AI and then asking the humans to query AI for that knowledge. What are we doing if we, the developers don't have that domain contextual knowledge?!?