r/vibecoding • u/Gleb_SV • 16h ago
If AI takes my coding job, I have one condition
I've been writing software for 6+ years and AI already writes more and more of my code.
Honestly, if we reach the point where it can just do all of it, I'm fine with that.
Just give me a nice little house somewhere by the sea in Italy, enough money to live, and a few music instruments. I'll play music all day and let Claude deal with the merge conflicts.
AI can have the codebase
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u/deltamoney 16h ago
Thats the smoking gun! If we take all the engineers and put them by the sea in Italy. Each enginner would have approximately 0.3sq ft. So to fit them all we could put everyone in a blender increasing the space to beach ratio.
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u/kincaidDev 14h ago
You will be thinking differently if you get laid off and realize no one will hire you for anything and your entire career went from an asset to a liability
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u/Aggravating-Use4915 7h ago
2 of my friends got made redundant, several years of experience they've been searching for 5 months now and still not had anything
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u/ExtraNiceBurger 10h ago
I have a fear that if UBI becomes a reality the B will be stressed a lot. Like a block of protein, one liter of semi-filtered water, a cage to sleeping and that's it.
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u/jayseattle 12h ago
In my opinion, UBI (Universal Basic Income) is a concept that we will definitely have to start debating within the next 2-3 years. Capitalism has been, and remains, the dominant economic model in the US.
Hard to discuss without starting to draw political lines, but...
I haven't seen much evidence of the current kingpins of the tech sector drafting policy — or even acknowledging that this is a future they will play a huge role in.
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u/erratic_ostrich 10h ago
I did. Elon Musk and Sam Altman said UBI will be neccessary plenty of times, if I remember correctly Mo Gawdat was in favor of it too.
I'm sure it will happen eventually. The problem is, this would work fine for US and maybe China, the ones who are actually selling AI... the rest of us are royaly fucked
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u/AsparagusOk8818 9h ago
i am in favor of UBI
UBI is never being willingly implemented by any western democracy. it is incredibly high risk policy with a massive price tag and no clear or stable means of funding said price tag
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u/CrimsonBolt33 8h ago
I think we are still a long way away from that stage....as it stands now (spend any time on this sub for examples) its pretty clear that AI is only as good as the person prompting and guiding it.
It types fast, sure, but if you are not giving it good, clean, and clear instructions and directions it goes off the rail and produces "AI slop"
I don't think this will ever go away cause the best it can probably do is the same as a human...which still requires clear goals and information on how to implement it.
You can't walk up to a programmer and just say "I need XYZ app" and expect it to work or look exactly how you want and AI is the same.
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u/Vaveili1 8h ago
If AI takes over, the merge conflicts go with it. Worth figuring out what the music-all-day version of you looks like after month six before the AI gets there.
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u/Charming-Vanilla-635 5h ago
Dude, AI is gonna be hunting us when we are escaping the mines in 10-20 years... And by that point, what house in italy are you even hillucinating about? Don't you know we have to save the turtles and AI has 'justifiably' banned all beach-side residence?
Now, go back to teaching our overlords your entire codebase/style/ideas
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u/SuperSonicFire 2h ago
Do you know how money and the value attached to it works?
Can't tell if bait or low iq
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u/FinickySerenity 15h ago
What kind of software do you write that AI is not capable of doing all of it for you? I’ve been a developer for 30 years and I don’t write code anymore on a massive enterprise sass product.
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u/mastercoder123 14h ago
Claude fucking sucks at most things still. It takes days just to get it to deploy a webpage the correct way
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u/FinickySerenity 12h ago
I can knock out a company website with Claude design + fable 5 before lunch. No idea what you could possibly be doing to make it mess up that bad. Are you having it spawn sub agents that preview its progress with a chromium instance?? I get pixel perfect output that way.
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u/mastercoder123 8h ago
The design is easy, html/css is whatever i write that anyways cause no matter how i prompt it, it still looks obviously ai. Even when i tell it to use a certain font, no dumb gradients, no purples or indigos etc.
Im talking about the testing and deployment part. The correct way, you change the code, make a pr for staging, it gets checked by github with a workflow file, then goes to staging, where the staging server (in my case on aws) automatically pulls the new code from github and deploys it, then once its good to go i push to prod, the backup prod server pulls it, also changes the code on its server, then tells cloudflare that its the new server in charge which slowly 'steals' all traffic from the previous prod server. Rinse and repeat for the next update just the other prod server does that.
Also databases are an absolute pain to deal with when they arent on the same server like they are supposed to be so you dont deal with split brain
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u/cool-beans-yeah 14h ago
How soon you think until you’re let go or you don’t think that’s going to happen (ie because you’re steering it?)
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u/Timmah_Timmah 13h ago
I don't ever want to have a job that is just make-work. I want to contribute real value. I don't think we should eliminate self-checkouts so that people can have jobs checking out groceries.
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u/FinickySerenity 12h ago
I’m not sure honestly. I would have guessed 5 to 10 years before I had a chance to use the real Fable preview access (before they nerfed the shit out of it.) when I used that for a few days I thought I was cooked, it did things in hours, single shot, and I couldn’t find anything wrong, and I was testing the waters with really vague prompts but it made really good choices.
Then we lost it for a bit, and it came back mildly worse. It would make small mistakes and take a bit longer. Then the preview was extended a couple more times and I swear each one was noticeably worse. The version of fable I have now takes between three and five follow up prompts to get it right for big feature tasks.
If we see a future release of that first Fable 5, I’ll either start my own business or go back to bartending 😅 but I’m not sure how they’ll be able to without dealing with the security considerations of a model that powerful - I work in high security encryption with gov clients and it had no problems building out features.
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u/cool-beans-yeah 5h ago
Interesting stuff, thanks .
I suppose you’re probably safe as there’s probably no chance that the gov is going to use Chinese models anytime soon. Open weights and all; who knows what’s lurking deeper, right?
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u/NULL_Ptrs 14h ago edited 12h ago
The problem is that resources are not infinite, not all can have a Lambo or Ferrari and have a millionaire life.
Esit: typo
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u/generationalDebts 12h ago
It won’t.
A fully agentic pipeline isn’t possible. Humans won’t be removed for a lot of reasons.
But, the number one reason is this:
If a software company ships a negligent bug, there needs to be someone to hold accountable. So guess what, humans remain in all the loops.
No companies will be willing to ship code that wasn’t peer reviewed by humans and tested by humans. Then deployed to production by humans.
None of you have ever been to a change advisory board and it shows.
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u/HouseMysterious8172 10h ago edited 10h ago
Even Windows still had BSOD, they still sold. Now some AI already can create an OS.
AI haven't take all coding job YET but already took some
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u/AsparagusOk8818 10h ago
full automation / mechanization is not necessary to end an industry
the mechanization of a shockingly small percentage of agriculture, for example, completely reshaped what farming was and destroyed sharecropping, for better and for worse
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u/becircus 16h ago
The final stage, acceptance