Anyone that actually knows how to code, we are the new COBOL programmers

Didn't someone tweet out how developers are irrelevant now and they'd made a monetised website 100% using AI and within ~half hour or so it was hacked

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Agifem@reddit

Give him credit. It took two days. And it was hilarious. Please make more.

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mothzilla@reddit

Allegedly. Not sure if it was satire though.

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jeffcabbages@reddit

Microsoft is trying it with copilot for future versions of dotnet. Their PRs are public and I get a sick childlike glee watching the AI drive the engineers insane.

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Yeah I saw that yesterday. But I wouldn't call that "vibe coding". That's an AI trying to make PRs, which is slightly different in that it's not human typing "make the background pop" into a prompt. Although, thinking about it, maybe that's splitting hairs. Hmm.

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jeffcabbages@reddit

Yeah, I don’t see a difference at all. The input is the description of a bug, the output is code. Instead of an engineer pasting the code into an IDE, it goes into a PR. The engineer then leaves comments to fix issues instead of writing a message directly to the GPT, and the PR gets updated.

It’s quite literally the exact same process except with GitHub acting as a wrapper around the chat box.

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Agifem@reddit

It would be impressive if AI could get the job done.

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imalurker420@reddit

I think in that case it’s the PR commenters that are essentially vibe coding

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Doiq@reddit

Adult toy websites?

I’ll see myself out.

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Fantastic_Sympathy85@reddit

Yea I think we know, but first we have to get through mass redundancies, ceos thinking they know better, and then the rehiring process. I reckon about 5 years.

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spookydookie@reddit (OP)

Companies are already starting to regret going too far on AI.

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etherwhisper@reddit

Can you give examples?

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TangerineSorry8463@reddit

lmgtfy "Klarna hires back support team after replacing with AI"

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Purple-Cap4457@reddit

Lmaoooo what a bunch idiots 😀😀😀😀

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TangerineSorry8463@reddit

Actually they probably were financegaming and reducing staff to show higher whatever metrics in preparation for IPO or sale.

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caffeinated_wizard@reddit

My company is just starting to push AI down our throats ahead of a potential sell to inflate perceived value. It’s a mess.

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theKetoBear@reddit

"WHY DO WE OVERPAY SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ANYWAY ALL THEY DO IS CLICKETY CLACK ON THE KEYBOARD ALL DAY!"

It's always baffled me how many millionaires pay me and yet can barely wrap their head around the product that makes them money . They understand how it can make them more money but most of them don't understand why what they sell is good or desired.

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Theoretical-idealist@reddit

Their ego just takes as much credit as possible which with the power of ignorance can be close to 100%. It happens to me after technical meetings where I feel like I had an idea we arrived at together, but I can see it so o guess that’s ok.

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TangerineSorry8463@reddit

I literally told my boss that he pays me more than both he and I pay for ChatGPT, so I'm glad he values my opinions higher than the robot's.

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TangerineSorry8463@reddit

As a 7 YoE dev, I'm still gonna be using AI. I'm just gonna be writing things like "Give me a Python lambda that takes in following input: input.json , does A, B and C to it, and concludes by sending a message to service X" or "This service needs to be expanded with: Fizz, Buzz, Bar, Boor, Bop. We're only going to focus on Fizz right now. Write Fizz and tests." and not "Create Stripe clone mixed with Tinder for dogs, but you can barter with social media clout"

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Fjordi_Cruyff@reddit

Can't wait. I'm picturing myself as one of these old fellas who keep the banking systems afloat with the wizardry of bygone days. With the salary to go with it.

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Purple-Cap4457@reddit

😀

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thermitethrowaway@reddit

Ooh I should be able to build up a nice nest egg for retirement.

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ExperiencedDevs-ModTeam@reddit

Rule 9: No Low Effort Posts, Excessive Venting, or Bragging.

Using this subreddit to crowd source answers to something that isn't really contributing to the spirit of this subreddit is forbidden at moderator's discretion. This includes posts that are mostly focused around venting or bragging; both of these types of posts are difficult to moderate and don't contribute much to the subreddit.

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Izacus@reddit

You people really need to stop with this low effort shitposting.

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bitspace@reddit

Do you define "shitposting" as "anything I disagree with"?

Because that's a different definition of "shitposting" than mine.

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kernel_task@reddit

No, that’s not it at all. I agree with this post, but it’s still a low effort shitpost. We all hate vibe coding and think AI slop is bad.

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poetry-linesman@reddit

I like vibe coding - I’m a professional senior FE dev.

AI is not at all “slop”, you’re missing the bit if that’s what your future strategy is based on

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coding9@reddit

Yeah I think there’s a big difference between one shotting and merging what AI tools give you.

And using open ai codex, cline, or GitHub copilot’s agent and then iterating as if it was a human on your team in the pr review.

This is powerful, for many tasks I can get a huge head start, or become a better reviewer and get instant fixes towards a better solution

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IngresABF@reddit

Hey now don’t interrupt Sir Erudite when he’s pontificating. All posts must only serve to burnish one’s reputation as world’s cleverest boy

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Captator@reddit

These are pleasing sentences to read.

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Izacus@reddit

> Do you define "shitposting" as "anything I disagree with"?

No, I define low effort shitposting as... low effort shitposting.

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spookydookie@reddit (OP)

Vibe code Stripe. Go.

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spookydookie@reddit (OP)

I'm waiting...

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John_Lawn4@reddit

You are preaching to the choir buddy

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enserioamigo@reddit

Yeah it's pretty cringe boomer shit

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HolyPommeDeTerre@reddit

Ok... What's boomer about that please? I need enlightenment

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htom3heb@reddit

I figure that if our profession goes away (or is massively scaled back), then the same is happening for pretty well all white collar work. Change at that scale doesn't happen overnight, even the internet took a decade. That being said, I see AI as being another tool in the toolbelt versus a replacement - humans still need to operate it and will for the foreseeable future.

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poetry-linesman@reddit

No, we will be replaced.

We didn’t hit a wall yet but you’re acting like we hit a wall.

We will be one of the first professions to go.

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Whiskey4Wisdom@reddit

I use ai assistants to start a new feature, but need to do a lot of refactoring to get the code where it needs to be. I can't imagine how bad some vibe codebases must be

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PixelPhoenixForce@reddit

that may actually be true in couple of years

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OkKnowledge2064@reddit

Thing is, good code wont matter for 98% of the usecases if the code is cheaper

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nrith@reddit

That’s why my millennial boss relies on me so much—he knows that no matter how broken shit is, I’ll find a solution.

My mother was a COBOL programmer who was increasingly passed over for promotions in the 90s because she didn’t have a bachelor’s degree, and because she was in her late 40s, but when Y2K rolled around, she’s the one who completely saved her major public utility company’s systems. All of her early-80s colleagues had gone into management and could no longer handle the coding.

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Drunken_Economist@reddit

sorry.

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soundman32@reddit

I am doing exactly that right now with a 15 year old .net project. None of the current devs have a clue about assembly redirects or what happens when a nuget package update fails. I'm charging them a fortune to use the skills I learned in 2013 (and forgot about by 2020).

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iamyourtypicalguy@reddit

It would be funny when a vibe coder prompts the whole legacy code base and the ai would just draft him a resignation letter

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jaynabonne@reddit

Have you ever seen Logan's Run, where Logan and Jessica finally get to the surface and meet the old, bearded guy in the library? (Books!)

We're the old guy.

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PM_ME_YOUR_MUSIC@reddit

   IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
   PROGRAM-ID. IsEvenCheck.

   DATA DIVISION.
   WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
   77 NUM-IN         PIC 9(5) VALUE 0.
   77 IS-EVEN-FLAG   PIC X(3) VALUE SPACES.

   PROCEDURE DIVISION.
   MAIN-PARAGRAPH.
       DISPLAY "Enter a number: "
       ACCEPT NUM-IN

       PERFORM CHECK-IF-EVEN

       DISPLAY "The number is " IS-EVEN-FLAG

       STOP RUN.

   CHECK-IF-EVEN.
       IF FUNCTION MOD(NUM-IN, 2) = 0
           MOVE "EVEN" TO IS-EVEN-FLAG
       ELSE
           MOVE "ODD" TO IS-EVEN-FLAG.

Just vibe coded this. Check m8

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AGI occurs - no one knows what this world even looks like.

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