Yeah because vibe coding has only really worked for 3 months. Give it a chance!

It'll probably be a couple of years before most companies even realise it's an option.

tempest_ 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Vibe coding as in "Make me a postgres" is poor but if you think it hasn't affected CRUD feature work you would be wrong.

Most developers don't work building low level high performance scalable systems for a large tech firms, they are making CRUD back-ends for phone apps.

This section of the industry is definitely contracting. Even more obvious is the dev tooling part of it. Dev tooling companies are disappearing or being "bought" all over the place because what might have been a product before is now an hour or two with someone with CC.

	▲	to11mtm 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As someone in what is relatively the equivalent of Raven's Call of Duty mines compared to past work... Yeah, 100%. Even for relatively complex scenarios (i.e. over-engineered for purpose) as long as the engineer can prompt coherently and tweak it's a big increase in productivity, at least for those people. The gap is in things like contract houses where you might see better code on code review from the people submitting but if you actually use the tools, you know that the hours billed are even more inflated than they might have been before.
	▲	Barrin92 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>but if you think it hasn't affected CRUD feature work you would be wrong. the mythical man month lesson holds for CRUD apps as well. I'd be careful to equate churning out lines of code with the health of a piece of software down the road, even a relatively straight forward one. Keep in mind in any real world software what matters is maintenance of a system, not just how many features you can add, regardless of human or machine generated code, some badly glued together codebase that's rapidly growing is going to haunt you. Which is also why replacing sound dev tooling and with a magical prompt genie is incredibly irresponsible and short-sighted. You could cheaply produce code by outsourcing it years ago.

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repeekad 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I know of a brake parts factory outside dayton ohio who had the Microsoft folks come through with promises well over a year ago now. They've already overspent and had to pull back their AI budgets when it made more work than it solved.

> before most companies even realize it's an option Couldn't be further from the truth

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stonogo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The problem with this argument is that people have been saying "it just recently got good" for about two years now.

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lisplist 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Have they? AI agents only really got usable around last fall. LLMs were pretty useful starting basically at the beginning of 2025, but not in the fully autonomous way that they are now.

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stonogo 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, and each iteration of your comment picks a different date and a different 'killer feature' that 'made them usable'

	▲	lisplist an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Perhaps it is different dates for different people then

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IshKebab 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I keep hearing this. People being premature before does not mean they are premature now.

How long have people been warning about global warming? Do you still think it isn't real?

	▲	bigstrat2003 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> People being premature before does not mean they are premature now. It does not. But it does mean they are bad at predictions and you shouldn't give their latest prediction much credence.

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bigstrat2003 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Vibe coding still doesn't work today.

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asadotzler 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seven years ago (*!!SEVEN!!*) GPT was too dangerous to release and yet everything that AI has touched since then is WORSE now than it was then. "Three months" is entirely nonsense. Seven years. Seven. S. E. V. E. N. Y. E. A. R. S.

If you moved the goal posts any farther, they'd have traveled around the world and would be sitting at your back right now.