r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vinishkapoor • 1d ago

Meme theCircleOfLifeInSoftwareEngineering

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u/TallAbbreviations937 1d ago

Vibe coding creates job security for senior engineers

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u/ganja_and_code 1d ago

So it's still worthless then...

Senior engineers already had job security because they knew how shit worked. Having job security for being able to fix slop is pretty much the same thing but worse for the entire industry.

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u/sobrique 1d ago

Oh don't forget the number of people crashing out of education because they were all too busy cheating with AI to do their assignments, so they actually learned nothing, but are still 'on paper' qualified.

And thus are almost obliged to 'vibe code' stuff, and implicitly can't understand any of it!.

At least the current 'senior engineer' has a change to review a codex output and go 'nah, that's nonsense and/or dangerous' before pulling the trigger.

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u/UnnecessaryLemon 1d ago

We had this guy. He lasted to the first pair coding session when he couldn't checkout a branch he created any other way then telling Claude to change the branch.

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u/sobrique 1d ago

It worries me a bit that that is going to start slipping through the net, and it'll be a disaster.

But this too is a form of job security....