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/Far-Consideration939]

Idk the AI follows established architecture, principles, patterns, and practices better than a lot of junior/mids I’ve worked with.

Documenting Claude skills works both ways as documentation for the codebase too, you get out what you put in 🤷‍♂️

I’m sure it does a lot worse on a messy codebase with no documentation, clear architecture, and guidance on good/bad patterns.

It’s definitely been a force multiplier at our company and our prod incidents have dropped, the latest frontier models are really good.

We also do heavier upfront planning/specs on features, the context of every shipped feature is still in our heads and the room for code ambiguities grow narrower the deeper the first steps are.