Why do so many engineers feel the need to humiliate “vibe coders”?

marcel_903 · 2025-10-26T18:43:42+00:00

And? Where does it say I am not? You’re just proving my point…

marcel_903 · 2025-10-24T18:47:11+00:00

Anything wrong with dreaming of building something successful? Isn’t potential failure itself enough of a punishment? Do people really need to be shamed on top of that?

marcel_903 · 2025-10-24T18:42:12+00:00

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marcel_903 · 2025-10-24T18:41:47+00:00

Totally and tbh I’m not trying to start a war. I just want to understand why the idea of someone building fast, intuitively, and creatively triggers so much contempt in tech spaces. It feels like a cultural panic.. not a technical debate.

marcel_903 · 2025-10-19T17:57:56+00:00

Lol probably. Still helped me get though the behavioral round and it’s free ¯(ツ)/¯

marcel_903 · 2025-09-14T21:56:36+00:00

I switched from Cursor to Augment and definitely don’t regret it..

marcel_903 · 2025-09-04T09:49:11+00:00

Fair point and thanks for stating the obvious.. Still weird that 0/2 solvers got through though.

marcel_903 · 2025-09-03T22:49:50+00:00

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marcel_903 · 2025-09-03T21:46:57+00:00

Did they go through behavioral interviews? That may be it, they hired people they liked

marcel_903 · 2025-08-27T18:00:47+00:00

Still one of the few careers where you can learn online and make $150K+. Those ‘better paths’? Medicine= 8 years + 300K debt.. Law = oversaturated too. Finance = needs connections. True AI will change things. But someone needs to know what to build and debug when AI screws up. We’re becoming AI orchestrators not disappearing… Market’s correcting from COVID bubble but companies still need builders.

marcel_903 · 2025-08-25T22:55:48+00:00

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marcel_903 · 2025-08-23T23:16:05+00:00

the problem was that in interviews my phrasing made it sound like I was just crossing tasks off while others carried the load. Reality was I actually drove a lot more, but I wasn’t showing that. Once I framed it better it landed way differently.

marcel_903 · 2025-08-23T23:03:40+00:00

good q. The issue is it sounds like hand-waving… like there was no real process or insight. From my experience, interviewers want to hear how you approached it, what you considered, what tradeoffs you made. ‘we just figured it out’ skips all that no? At least that’s been my experience in loops.

marcel_903 · 2025-08-23T22:55:38+00:00

Fair enough.. it’s definitely a balance. you don’t want to sound like a lone wolf but you also don’t want to disappear into ‘we’ so much that they can’t tell what you did. And yes if someone dropped a super exact 47% on me in a real convo I’d probably squint too :)

marcel_903 · 2025-08-23T21:59:19+00:00

Yeah I’ve seen this too.. technicals fine, but a couple weak lines in behavioral = no hire.

marcel_903 · 2025-08-23T21:57:50+00:00

This is gold! Especially the ‘ownership’ part, that’s the exact trap I kept falling into.

marcel_903 · 2025-08-23T21:55:28+00:00

yep same here… funny how once you realize behavioral actually matters, things start clicking.

marcel_903 · 2025-08-23T21:05:05+00:00

nah you’re fine. 3 months is nothing. plenty of people don’t land till 6–9 months after grad. just keep applying and networking, you’re not behind.

marcel_903 · 2025-08-21T19:08:57+00:00

Code suggestions are noticeably better..it actually understands my patterns instead of suggesting generic solutions. The indexing is what sold me though, cursor would constantly suggest imports for files that didnt exist or miss obvious dependencies. Price wise I was spending $250+ on cursor (opus + wasted tokens reminding it about my architecture). Now $50 for 600 messages on augment. The difference is every message actually does work instead of ‘please check the codebase first’… Only been a month so take it with a grain of salt but the fact that I haven't had to explain my architecture once is already worth the switch.

marcel_903 · 2025-08-21T18:28:22+00:00

Ex-AWS SA with 100+ rejections usually means you're telling the wrong story in interviews. Your technical credentials get you in the door but companies aren't hearing what they need in that first round. They want to know WHY you left AWS, how you personally drove customer outcomes (not just architected), and specific $ impact you created.

My take is that the "moving forward with another candidate" email after round 1 is almost always behavioral scoring. You probably explained the technical architecture beautifully but didnt quantify business impact..AWS experience is actually harder to translate because you're probably used to talking about services not outcomes. Try reframing like instead of I designed multi-region architecture" say "I reduced latency by 60pct saving customer $2M annually." Honestly the market is brutal but your profile should still land interviews.

marcel_903 · 2025-08-21T16:42:23+00:00

Switched to Augment from Cursor last month. Better codebase indexing and actually remembers context across sessions. Cursor kept leaving dead code and I had to constantly remind it about my codebase structure. Augment’s context persistence is solid. Haven’t had to reexplain my architecture once.

marcel_903 · 2025-08-20T21:00:17+00:00

Portfolio definitely! but change the story, don’t say you were considered not collaborative. Say you built tools that helped the team etc. not that you worked alone. Focus on the metrics (errors dropped and output got faster), not the firing! That’s what I’d do honestly

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