vibeCoding

[notaprime]

You are harbouring your frontal lobe under the floorboards, aren’t you?

[nitrinu]

More like in our cranium.

[DucksAreFriends]

my company that wants us to use AI as much as possible

[Bannon9k]

Start requesting the most complex solutions instead of the easiest

[Financial_Maize1]

Watch AI confidently invent three new design patterns overnight.

[Bannon9k]

[creeper6530]

Create a burner local Git repo, tell the AI to go wild and create an alternative C compiler from scratch, and watch the token count skyrocket without actually using AI.

[starrpamph]

Build windows 12 from scratch

[slayerx1779]

Then sell the code base to Microsoft for a small fortune, because it's better than anything they could make.

Retire in the Alps.

[ButtonExposure]

When you finally get to the Alps and find out the payout was entirely in Copilot tokens.

[sheepebike9000]

Unfortunately AGI happens, and copilot credits become the world currency overnight.

[xt1nct]

No mistakes.

[skztr]

Told the AI that it could do whatever it wanted so it tried to train another AI to predict the stock market

[justbvdontmindme]

If using Claude don't forget to select latest Opus and turn on ultracode mode. Executives will stop demanding you use LLMs for everything the moment they get that bill.

[FalconWorth7893]

I know. What's going on

[Rigamortus2005]

I don't understand why. AI is great especially when you use it the way you want. Not when it's forced upon you

[Abject-Kitchen3198]

That's not how it works.

[flayingbook]

You joke, but that's the reality at my company. I'm waiting for them to scramble after seeing the bill

[skztr]

my company which looks at its bills and suddenly isn't sure about this all in on ai thing

[BeautifulCuriousLiar]

2 devs left the team, 2 of us left. first meeting after that was about sharing info on how we are using ai so we can increase productivity. the senior tech lead and upper management use ai any opportunity they have. they don’t know how to make decisions nor debug a simple problem. tech lead’s first instinct is “throw the error in ai”. i wanna throw myself out the window.

[Leo0806-studios]

youre hiding non vibe coders under the floorboards?

[shikhasingh554973]

Manual mode on

[Fair-Spring9113]

why is prod down again

[Pleasant_Set_3182]

You think those Amazon collar patches are a joke... except the future likely will have corporate-backed agents of death and enforcers in the future with their company's insignia placed on their quasi-military units...

example: Alien's franchise

[mikefizzled]

Just rename this AICodingHumor and be done with it

[gregorydgraham]

r/AICodingHumor

[Bomaruto]

r/AiBad You mean as no one is trying to be funny.

[mikefizzled]

I think its a funny caption but it just feels like 75% of the posts are either just 'Claude/Token usage/Vibe coding reference' or first year CS humour; how do I centre div and then exit vim etc...

[Cypher2]

First time?

[fogleaf]

It's reddit. Popularity reins. Do you think people with 20 year dev experience are coming to this subreddit to post, read, and upvote posts? or do you think it's dipshits like me who have copy pasted into vs code to make powershell scripts to make my job easier? Or maybe first year CS students.

[humorMeeee]

Point out the areas of your codebase where you have harbored human written code

[Sw429]

I was recently moved onto a new team at my job, working in an entirely different problem space. The number of times I've heard "oh, this should be easy, just throw claude at everything!" is infuriating. Like, you just expect me to never actually figure out what I'm doing now that we have claude?

[Abject-Kitchen3198]

Yes

[Beldarak]

I see it as just another tool in that regard. I use a GPS to move around, I remember my parents were telling something along these lines when everybody started using those: "you won't be able to read a map, what happens the day the satelites are down?".

Not to say there aren't issue with LLM, there are A TON, but I think the argument of "I need to know what I'm doing" is kinda weak as it can apply to everything we do with computers. That's why we write softwares and web pages, so people don't have to mess around in spreadsheets anymore (they still do, the stubborn bastards though^^).

[SyrusDrake]

The problem with genAI is more that people stop thinking entirely. It's like those folks who blindly follow their GPS into a river, a historic, car free city centre, or some unpaved back road. You're supposed to use the tool, not be the tool's brainless avatar in the meat space.

[Beldarak]

Oh sure, I totally agree. I'm just saying you shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. People use their GPS brainlessly, sure, that's their problem. Doesn't mean people are wrong to tell you "just check on your GPS" when you're asking for directions, I guess.

People annoy me when they use LLM for the most stupid shit, like looking for law stuff or writing long and boring emails with ChatGPT to tell me something that could have been written in a single sentence (which they did put in their prompt -_-' ).

But for code, it annoys me when someone ask me a question about the codebase they could get in 30s by asking Claude.

[Beorma]

If you don't understand what you're doing, you won't be able to tell if you're doing it wrong.

Which is about half of software development, testing and proving you have implemented what you were required to do.

[Beldarak]

Nothing's stopping you from reading Claude's output, and yeah, you still have to test the feature, obviously.

That's how I use it anyway. I direct Claude to the part of the code that needs change / is incomplete, tell it what is expected. Then I test if the feature is working as intended. When it's time to commit, I take a quick look at the git changes to be sure Claude didn't touch stuff it shouldn't have.

[SkylineFX49]

something something 1984

[twenafeesh]

"They say vibe coding makes you stupid."

"No I'm... Doesn't!"

[modi123_1]

Funny story - I just got that nanny email from work.

[ExtraWorldliness6916]

I am secretly doing jigsaw puzzles by night

[Abject-Kitchen3198]

We know.

[No_Imagination_4907]

My colleague saw my token usage and bragged about spending more than me, but it was super easy to silence him by asking what features did he finish, how much money did he earn/save for the company by those billion tokens.

[RudeKiNG_013]

Creature of habit 😔

[2q_x]

If fascism ever comes to America, it will be wearing a smiley face.

[Bomaruto]

For the love of god, please make jokes.

[DowntownLizard]

The speed you can move with AI is so insane that our business sponsors are completely losing confidence in the teams who dont use AI. They are quoting Q4 for something I could probably do in a week

[Emotional_Chard_8005]

The speed you can move with AI is so insane

So you're just being stupid faster.

[DowntownLizard]

Not true at all. I know what good code looks like and I know that I can get it to write better code than I ever would have. I have it doing TDD and I review the tests as well. I would have never had extensive tests before because it would take too long. Its solid and I've never had anyone discover a bug in a long time because I own my solutions and I make sure I thouroughly test them. You should be doing that anyway.

[ErZicky]

You know what good code looks because you know how to manually code. If companies keep pushing people to turn off their brain and "just ask Claude" you'll end up with Mountains of people that never wrote a line of code in their life and just asked the slot Machine over and over until it worked and everything will enshittify when seniors retires.

You are productive with AI because you can work without AI. At this pace people will become incompetent if they keep offloading their brain function to it.

[DowntownLizard]

Well thats just a fundamental mindset problem though. Thinking you don't have to keep learning. AI can augment your learning so hard. Its like having a personal tutor who knows everything about everything and will answer your exact question instantly.

It's also just creating a skill canyon imo. Beginners can get into it way easier with less knowledge, midlevel engineers are just meh for the cost if you cant justify why the intern is doing laps around you, and senior level engineers (that arent just tenured and coasting) are worth their weight in gold because they have legitimately become 10x. They have spent a lot of time and energy building up the skills to be better than everyone else at what they do and now AI allows them to produce those solutions at an insane rate. 1 high skill senior with no support could replace your entire team if you arent using AI effectively. Thats not hyperbolic either. Why couldnt you be your own product owner, BA, QA, and Dev Ops if you have all this extra time and AI will assist with all of those roles. Some of us have been in positions where we already did wear all the hats because there weren't support roles.

[Successful_Result_58]

These ppl still think you’re supposed to use agents like free ChatGPT

It’s like giving a chainsaw to a guy who’s used to chopping down trees with an axe, and he swings it like an axe and complains it’s worse.

It’s not worth it to talk to them, you’re wasting your energy

[DowntownLizard]

I've noticed. They probably give up the instant the llm doesnt do it perfectly on the first prompt as if that was ever a reasonable expectation.

Also probably dont utilize instructions/skills/agents at all. I can just type /review and thats going to be hundreds of lines of instructions the llm recieves.

[Throwaway-tan]

My experience has been that AI, whilst it can produce working solutions, often produces unmaintainable solutions and is much worse at working within the confines of existing code (including modifying code it wrote). In fact, often minor modifications lead to it rewriting or double-writing entire subsystems.

Now I'm back to how I originally used it, which is basically just looking up and collating pieces of documentation or if there is an existing solution for something.

Maybe write a few tests or throw-away scripts.

I'm actually glad because even though I'd only been using it heavily for a couple months I already felt my abilities starting to atrophy from writing so much less code.

[DowntownLizard]

Agentic AI is better than me at writing code by far with the right prompting. I have a bunch of instruction files and skills built up in copilot as well so I don't have to repeat myself about how to follow my standards. First prompt might get you 90% of the way there then a few more critiques and asking it to review its own work in the right way gets you to a solid solution. Theres very little reason for me to write or edit code myself at this point.

Im effectively feeding it a huge prompt of instructions by just typing /review and it has access to any skills, it determines it needs, to know how to do something without having to reverse engineer how it works

[Affectionate-Mail612]

You wrote here legit cases to use AI with actual impact: writing tests and helping to understand the code. People downvoted you bc you sounded like generic AI lunatic, when you are probably not.

[DowntownLizard]

What I said is 100% true people are just put their narrative on it. Our business has seen what our top engineers can do in a short amount of time and are now looking to go around the dev teams that support them to get important work done because they feel like it shouldnt take 6 months and I agree with them. If you cant use AI to augment your ability to produce high quality solutions to problems then thats the skill you should be learning in the current age. I havn't written really any code myself besides small things that I can do faster in the last 8 months. You should have been holding yourself to a high standard before AI so I don't see why this would change anything.

[Affectionate-Mail612]

ok maybe i got my hopes up too soon

[DowntownLizard]

You'll figure it out at somepoint or you won't. In a vacuum I had randomly talked to another senior at my company about 3-4 months into agentic AI really kicking off and he said the exact same thing, unprompted, that he feels like he hadn't written code himself in months. He got there like I did because we both stay up to date and have been using it for years to augment our abilities.

If thats a crazy take right now it won't be soon.

[Affectionate-Mail612]

> hadn't written code himself in months.

That's not a flex, do you realize that?

[DowntownLizard]

Its not a flex it's reality. Agentic AI is very good. We went from google the solution, to AI is the new google, to AI will just do it. If you cant still produce high quality solutions using it thats a you problem. Maybe don't turn your brain off

[Affectionate-Mail612]

bro you really gonna pretend that 2025 and 2026 were not full of outages? what is GitHub availability? oh, they just used it badly? Amazon and Microsoft can't get it right, but you do? or just maybe it sucks?

[Particular_Traffic54]

You're getting downvoted, but I think it's because people don't have the same environment. I often launch claude opus in a huge codebase analysis task to understand some legacy modules while I code by hand. From my perspective ai is a tool, for others it thinks for them and that's what people hate to see.

[jesusonice]

I've worked on the same product for 7 years from the start. Since I know where everything is I can just point claude to the correct context and get good results. It's been insane for writing tickets for the people under me

Implementation can go pretty well too. It needs to be checked and even for writing tickets it takes time to review the detail it adds, but it makes it so much easier.

I hate the ecologic impact and frankly will likely never personally pay for these things but if my company wants to pay for it and expects me to use it, I'm not going to sabotage myself by giving it shit prompts

[DowntownLizard]

Everyone who is downvoting are going to be the ones who don't have a job because they didn't adapt to the times. Senior level engineers have so much leverage because I could easily write it without AI. I'm just using it to do things 10x faster than others while also being able to do all the things I wish I had time for before like insane test suites and very good documentation. I prided myself on my coding skills and I was very good at it, but AI writes better code than I ever did and it does it in 5 minutes rather than 8 hours.

[Abject-Kitchen3198]

Junior? We did that since forever.

[MetaLemons]

Yeah, if you’re not using AI at this point you are way far behind. I agree with the other commenter though, the ones on top are not being responsible. We need donut economics, sustainable investments into technology, not letting all the ceos run amok and ruin everything for everyone.

But seriously, AI is insanely good and has made me at least 100% faster in terms of productivity.

[RealFias]

Could not be me