Programmer Humor

It is not useless. You should absolutely continue to vibes code. Don't let a professional get involved at the ground floor. Don't inhouse a professional staff.

Please continue paying me $200/hr for months on end debugging your Baby's First Web App tier coding project long after anyone else can salvage it.

And don't forget to tell your investors how smart you are by Vibes Coding! That's the most important part. Secure! That! Series! B! Go public! Get yourself a billion dollar valuation on these projects!

Keep me in the good wine and the nice car! I love vibes coding.

Obviously fake. Still funny though.

I don’t really care about vibe coders but as a dev with just under 2 decades in the field:

1. Your vibe coding shit will not go to prod until humans fully review it
2. You better review it yourself first before offloading that massive mental drain to someone else (which means you still need to have some semblance of programming skills). Don’t open a PR with 250 files in it and then tell someone else to validate it.
3. Use more context. Don’t give it vague ass prompts.
4. Don’t use auto-accept. That’s just lazy asshole shit.

I can’t stress this enough: if you give me a PR with tons of new files and expect me to review it when you didn’t even review it yourself, I will 100% reject it and make you do it. If it’s all dumped into a single commit, I will whip your computer into the nearest body of water and tell you to go fish it out.

I don’t care what AI tool wrote your code. You’re still responsible for it and I will blame you.

As a software developer, I've found some free LLMs to provide productivity boosts. It is a fairly hairpulling experience to not try too hard to get a bad LLM to correct itself, and learning to switch quickly from bad LLMs is a key skill in using them. A good model is still one that you can fix their broken code, and ask them to understand why what you provided them fixes it. They need a long context window to not repeat their mistakes. Qwen 3 is very good at this. Open source also means a future of customizing to domain, ie. language specific, optimizations, and privacy trust/unlimited use with enough local RAM, with some confidence that AI is working for you rather than data collecting for others. Claude Sonnet 4 is stronger, but limited free access.

The permanent side of high market cap US AI industry is that it will always be a vector for NSA/fascism empire supremacy, and Skynet goal, in addition to potentially stealing your input/output streams. The future for users who need to opt out of these threats, is local inference, and open source that can be customized to domains important to users/organizations. Open models are already at close parity, IMO from my investigations, and, relatively low hanging fruit, customization a certain path to exceeding parity for most applications.

No LLM can be trusted to allow you do to something you have no expertise in. This state will remain an optimistic future for longer than you hope.

I'm not a programmer by any stretch but what LLM's have been great for is getting my homelab set up. I've even done some custom UI stuff for work that talks to open source backend things we run. I think I've actually learned a fair bit from the experience and if I had to start over I'd be able to do way way more on my own than I was able to when I first started. It's not perfect and as others have mentioned I have broken things and had to start projects completely from scratch but the second time through I knew where pitfalls were and I'm getting better at knowing what to ask for and telling it what to avoid.

I'm not a programmer but I'm not trying to ship anything either. In general I'm a pretty anti-AI guy but for the non-initiated that want to get started with a homelab I'd say its damn near instrumental in a quick turnaround and a fairly decent educational tool.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1mu6t8z/_/

So there are multiple people in this thread who state their job is to unfuck what the LLMs are doing. I have a family member who graduated in CS a year ago and is having a hell of a time finding work, how would he go about getting one of these "clean up after the model" jobs?

They're so close to actual understanding of how much they suck.

I'm sure it's fun to see a series of text prompts turn into an app, but if you don't understand the code and can't fix it when it doesn't work without starting over, you're going to have a bad time. Sure, it takes time and effort to learn to program, but it pays off in the end.

My entire IT career has been funded by morons like this. This is just the latest moronic idea that is going to pay my bills. Cleaning up after vibe coders has guaranteed my income until I die. You see, posts like this focus on the code that is broken and requires another dev to fix it enough to get it going. There is a long road from "finally working" to "production ready" to "optimized", and we get paid along every inch of the way.

Clearly satire

I refuse to believe this post isn't satire, because holy shit.

Like trying to write a book just using auto complete

Vibe coding is useful for super basic bash scripting and that's about it. Even that it will mess up but usually in a suler easily fixed way

AI used extremely sparingly is sometimes helpful to an experienced coder. "Multivac, generate a set of unit tests for this function." Okay, some of these are dumb, but it's easier getting started on this mess than just looking at a blank buffer. Helps get the juices flowing a bit. But man, you try to actually do anything with it, and suddenly you're lost chasing a will-o'-wisp.

Why does this image look like an AI-generated screenshot? The letter spacing and weights are all wrong.

God bless vibe coders, because of them I'm buying a new PC build this week AND I've decided to get a PS5.

Thank you Vibe Coders, your laziness and and sheer idiocy are padding my wallet nicely.

Swear to god the vibe coding movement is going to create so many new jobs in the ilk of "I hired some dude to write my startup thing and now it's gone all to shit, can you make it actually good and scalable and responsive please?"

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imo paying devs to review vibe coded bile would not work either. At best, the dev themselves should do the vibe coding.

Someone who has no clue whatsoever in terms of programming cannot give it the right prompt.

But I thought armies of teenagers were starting tech businesses?!

It's like the nerd version of Synthol body 'builders'.

The AI Fix podcast had a piece about how someone let an AI agent do the coding for them but had a disaster because he gave it access to the production database.

Very funny.

https://theaifix.show/61-replit-panics-deletes-1m-project-ai-gets-gold-at-math-olympiad/