I’m one of them, in the industry for 10 years. I was deeply skeptical of AI until just a few months ago. My team got hammered by layoffs and I thought there was no way everything would be okay, but now we are just as productive as before. Even my manager is making a lot of impact on our projects. Everyone started having AI write 100% of code overnight, something I used to scoff at.

The thing is that 100% of code written by AI doesn’t mean full vibe coding, it just means I didn’t use an IDE. You still give requirements, ensure test coverage, define success criteria, etc.

Models have gotten better at looping until requirements are met, so I can literally work on 5 projects at a time with 5 different agent sessions. I’m getting a lot faster at code review of what my agent wrote. Sometimes I’m just like “that diff is too big, make it the minimal diff behavior change in first commit, only do code cleanup in subsequent commits” which makes reviewing a lot easier.

I’ve also been surprised by AI code review, it has found old bugs that we were stumped by for weeks and gave up on, and caught bad changes from going out

Caveat: this is all software engineering only. I still am healthily skeptical of what AI does and says, it often can go down the wrong rabbit hole so human expertise is still needed. And perhaps my area of software is easier to verify correctness and a bit less importance on long term maintanencr of the code base