I'm quitting my job due to vibe coders and poor leadership

Posted by TheFlippedTurtle@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 533 comments

Our exec leadership this year is making a big push for AI. They're encouraging everyone to generate ideas and try to make them real with vibe code. The team with the best idea that generates real results gets a bonus. This has led to a huge influx of users creating their own apps. Honestly, some of the ideas aren't bad. But most of them don't know how to integrate them, support them when there's an issue, use good security practices or basic IT knowledge. When you try to debate one of these people you'll get a "well ChatGPT said.." response that drives me up the wall. We're flooded with vibe-coded app requests, we can't keep up with them and real work at the same time. We're forced to take them seriously. When I see a red flag, I call it out, I report it to security and my boss which turns into a meeting, which turns into a debate, lots of messages back and forth.. Eventually many of them get approved one way or another. All I did was waste time. To make things worse, users are installing AI agents on their work computers, despite some of us saying "absolutely not" it's fucking approved from the top down. I feel like we're holding onto a ticking time bomb. We already have a very full plate of work but there's so much noise from this that its so hard to keep up. Everyone is suddenly an expert on everything, telling us how to improve our infrastructure with AI. Tomorrow I'm giving notice, I don't have a job lined up but I don't care. I have savings and I plan on taking a year off from work. I'm not sure if I'm coming back to this career. I know the market is horrible but I've lost what joy I had left with this career after 20 years of working in it.