Having see what terminal vibecoding looks like (to the point where customers say "fix your app" during renewal conversations), I don't think this is likely to happen. There is definitely selection pressure being applied to SaaS companies and I would not expect people not directly responsible (PMs, sales, etc.) to be willing to accept responsibility for technical outcomes; after all they are product, not software experts.

It is possible this leads to a decrease in salary (and positions) but I do not believe the social commentary will pan out in the manner the author proposes. The people who most argue for vibe coding will themselves never accept responsibility for the technical outcomes.

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thr0w 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> The people who most argue for vibe coding will themselves never accept responsibility for the technical outcomes.

This is right, and don’t think this isn’t all partially fueled by spite. I’m not sure if engineers understand how much they’ve been simultaneously reviled/revered by non-technical people. They see this as a Prometheus moment. They would love to vibecode a mess and make the engineers deal with the details.

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KolibriFly 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The people saying "anyone can build software now" often seem to mean "anyone can generate code now"... which is not quite the same thing

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coffeefirst 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed. Anyone could always build software. Some people want to do it without actually learning anything or doing any work.

There are many things I wouldn’t mind doing without actually bothering to do the work, so I suppose I can relate.

	▲	netsharc 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I guess to use the car analogy, if the tech companies said they've made a robot that can fix your car, a car-ignorant will think the robot is all-capable and works as good as a mechanic. A lot of people don't know what writing software involves, and believe "AI can do it now!".

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victorbjorklund 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And when they point out the rare exception it’s always ”well, as a UX designer/product manager/etc I spent thousands of hours now working with AI to build products and if I don’t understand something then I ask the AI to teach me” - congratulations you haven’t replaced developers you just became one

	▲	mnky9800n 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The truth to me is that ai in some ways makes coding more accessible even if the code it produces is labelled as bad

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vanrohan 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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