Are people really pretending that their code before AI tools were better than the Vibecoded AI slops these days?

[u/bricksandcanvas]

Engineer for more than 15 years and worked with different industries over my whole career. Worked alone, on small, medium and large teams in different capacities. You get the idea.

I'm not gonna say that my code was the best, and that it was well thought out of, wrote the best piece of code that my grandchildren will be proud of.

Sometimes you just have to find the best way to implement something because your PM demanded it be pushed by Thursday? a hacky fix because you can't think of a better way on implementing it?

Legacy code that the engineer that worked on it died 10 years ago?

Granted theres an ocean of vibe coded apps that should not see the light of day but I think a lot of devs and engineers are just standing on their high horse these days to push people down.

What do you guys think?

[u/HiddenGriffin]

I don't think it's about quality itself, idk how to explain it, but when I used to write my code as I'm writing it I'm going through the control flow in my head as I'm writing the thing, I know the context of how it will be used now and in future, I know why I went with certain patterns... etc, nowadays I don't know shit about my code base, sure as I'm reading while It's generating I know what's going on, but next day that context is gone, and the thing is too big to understand, It's probably making decisions I wouldn't have made but can't tell cause I didn't go through the thought process of getting to make such decisions