Clearly this affected you deeply enough to create a new HN crusade account. Genuinely curious questions: Did you share this experience with management and your peers? What was their response? What steps could realistically reverse the momentum of vibe coding?
> Did you share this experience with management and your peers? What was their response?
Among my peers, there seemed to be a correlation between programming experience and agreement with my personal experience. I showed a particular colleague a part of the code and he genuinely asked me which one of the new hires wrote this.
As for management, well, let's just say that it's going to be an uphill battle :)
> What steps could realistically reverse the momentum of vibe coding?
For me and my team it's simple, we just won't be using those tools, and will keep being very strict with new hires to do the same.
For the software industry as a whole, I don't know. I think it's at least partially a lost cause. Just as the discussions about performance, and in general caring about our craft are.
I wish you luck, but at this point I think it is going the same path as banning cell phones in workplace/car/we.That is, even with penalties, people will do it.
